# obspy.io.stationxml.core

Functions dealing with reading and writing StationXML.

copyright: | Lion Krischer (krischer@geophysik.uni-muenchen.de), 2013
license: | GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 3 (https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html)

Public Functions

`validate_stationxml` | Checks if the given path is a valid StationXML file.

Private Functions

Warning

Private functions are mainly for internal/developer use and their API might change without notice.

`_attr2obj` |
`_float_to_str` | Converts a float to str making.
`_get_base_node_attributes` |
`_is_stationxml` | Simple function checking if the passed object contains a valid StationXML
`_obj2tag` | If tag_value is not None, append a SubElement to the parent. The text of
`_read_base_node` | Reads the base node structure from element and saves it in object_to_write_to.
`_read_channel` | Returns either a `Channel` object or
`_read_comment` |
`_read_data_availability` |
`_read_element` | Recursively read custom namespace elements and add them to extra.
`_read_equipment` |
`_read_external_reference` |
`_read_extra` | Add information stored in custom tags/attributes in obj.extra.
`_read_floattype` |
`_read_floattype_list` |
`_read_instrument_polynomial` |
`_read_instrument_sensitivity` |
`_read_network` |
`_read_operator` |
`_read_person` |
`_read_phone` |
`_read_response` |
`_read_response_stage` | This parses all ResponseStageTypes. It will return a different object
`_read_site` |
`_read_station` |
`_read_stationxml` | Function reading a StationXML file.
`_tag2obj` |
`_tags2obj` |
`_write_base_node` |
`_write_channel` |
`_write_comment` |
`_write_element` | Recursively write custom namespace elements.
`_write_equipment` |
`_write_external_reference` |
`_write_extra` | Write information stored in custom tags/attributes in obj.extra.
`_write_floattype` |
`_write_floattype_list` |
`_write_io_units` |
`_write_network` | Helper function converting a Network instance to an etree.Element.
`_write_person` |
`_write_phone` |
`_write_polezero_list` |
`_write_polynomial_common_fields` |
`_write_response` |
`_write_response_stage` |
`_write_site` |
`_write_station` |
`_write_stationxml` | Writes an inventory object to a buffer.

### Thank you!

We would like to thank our contributors, whose efforts make this software what it is. These people have helped by writing code and documentation, and by testing. They have created and maintained this product, its associated libraries and applications, our build tools and our web sites.

#### Contributors

- Ackerley, Nick
- Allgeyer, Sebastien
- Ammon, Charles J.
- Antunes, Emanuel
- Arnarsson, Ólafur St.
- Bank, Markus
- Barsch, Robert
- Behr, Yannik
- Bernardi, Fabrizio
- Bernauer, Felix
- Bes de Berc, Maxime
- Beyreuther, Moritz
- Boltz, Shawn
- Bonaimé, Sébastien
- Carothers, Lloyd
- Chamberlain, Calum
- Chambers, Derrick
- Chen, Zhao
- Clark, Adam
- Danecek, Peter
- Egdorf, Sven
- Engels, Fabian
- Ermert, Laura
- Eulenfeld, Tom

- Fabbri, Tommaso
- Falco, Nicholas
- Fee, Jeremy
- Grellier, Clément
- Grunberg, Marc
- Hammer, Conny
- Heimann, Sebastian
- Heiniger, Lukas
- Hope, Gaute
- Igel, Heiner
- Inza, Adolfo
- Isken, Marius
- Ketchum, David
- Koymans, Mathijs
- Kremers, Simon
- Kress, Victor
- Krieger, Lars
- Krischer, Lion
- Kula, Damian
- Käufl, Paul
- Köhler, Andreas
- Lecocq, Thomas
- Leeman, John
- Legovini, Paride

- Lesage, Philippe
- Li, Yulin
- Lomax, Anthony
- Lopes, Rui L.
- MacCarthy, Jonathan
- Maggi, Alessia
- Martin, Henri
- Medlin, Andrew
- Megies, Tobias
- Meschede, Matthias
- Michelini, Alberto
- Miller, Nathaniel C.
- Morgenstern, Bernhard
- Nof, Ran Novitsky
- Panning, Mark P.
- Parker, Tom
- Pestourie, Romain
- Rapagnani, Giovanni
- Reyes, Celso
- Ringler, Adam
- Rothenhäusler, Nicolas
- Russo, Emiliano
- Sales de Andrade, Elliott

- Satriano, Claudio
- Saul, Joachim
- Scheingraber, Chris
- Schneider, Simon
- Sippl, Christian
- Snoke, Arthur
- Stange, Stefan
- Stähler, Simon C.
- Sullivan, Benjamin
- Tian, Dongdong
- Trabant, Chad
- Trani, Luca
- Uieda, Leonardo
- Walker, Andrew
- Walther, Marcus
- Wassermann, Joachim
- Williams, Mark C.
- Winkelman, Andrew
- Zaccarelli, Riccardo
- Zad, Seyed Kasra Hosseini
- Zhu, Lijun
- van Driel, Martin
- van Wijk, Kasper

#### Funds

ObsPy was partially funded by the

- German Science Foundation (DFG) via grant DFG IG 16/9-1
- German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), GEOTECHNOLOGIEN grant 03G0646H.
- NERA project (Network of European Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Risk Assessment and Mitigation) under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) grant agreement n° 262330
- Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG)
- VERCE EU-FP7 project (no. 283543)