obspy.clients.fdsn.client.parse_simple_xml

parse_simple_xml(xml_string)[source]

Simple helper function for parsing the Catalog and Contributor availability files.

Parses XMLs of the form:

<Bs>
    <total>4</total>
    <B>1</B>
    <B>2</B>
    <B>3</B>
    <B>4</B>
</Bs>

and return a dictionary with a single item:

{"Bs": set(("1", "2", "3", "4"))}