metaf2xml

11 more groups in SYNOP section 3 are now processed, and processing of some other groups in sections 1, 2, and 3 has been improved. There is a new trend type "FM" for TAF reports. The XML nodes "reports" and below now have a non-empty namespace. The handling of time periods was improved. The option -X for metaf2xml.pl was removed. Many smaller improvements and a few bugfixes were made.

The ice/icing groups of SYNOP section 2 are now processed as well as groups in SYNOP section 5 from US sea station reports. The determination of the country of the issuer of the SYNOP report (required to apply national decoding rules) was improved. The display of past weather in the summary was extended. Several minor corrections and extensions were implemented.

A change in the previous version that caused xsltproc to use significantly more memory was reverted. Fetching files from NOAA/NWS and NOAA/IWS was improved. The CGI script does not print any HTML if called from the command line with format=text. Several other minor corrections and bugfixes were made.

The parser now recognizes five more groups from SYNOP section 3. Parsing of METAR remarks has been improved. The summary now also shows the station pressure (SYNOP), pressure(s) from METAR remarks, and gust/peak wind speeds. metaf2xml.pl now has the -H option (like metafsrc2raw.pl) to handle the WMO header. The XSL has been cleaned up to use expressions in attribute values and "current()" instead of variables. There are fixes for several bugs and other improvements and extensions.

This release adds parsing of SYNOP section 2 and extends parsing of METAR remarks and SYNOP sections 3 and 5. When weather messages are fetched from servers, the URL now can contain parameters to restrict the type of messages returned. There are also a number of other minor improvements and fixes.