At 11:41 PM 12/8/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>They do offer a specialized parsable (tho' not XML) format called "METAR"
>that may meet your needs - the trick is knowing where reporting stations
>(usually airports) are.

I've seen the METAR data.  It's not any easier to parse than the data I'm
using.   If anything, it's a more intensive operation, as there are more
variations on the line format within the data files.

Using the METAR data also involves jumping through a few hoops that I don't
need to jump through now, the least of which is associating all those
reporting stations with actual locations.

As I said before, I don't consider a few orphan cities to be a
problem.   If you need the weather information for Miami Beach, Florida,
look in florida-miami_beach.xml.  The fact that oregon-miami_beach.xml may
exist does not affect the accuracy or usability of the information in the
correct city file.

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Todd
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