<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hello web service users,</div><div><br></div><div>The DMC has updated the ws-station service to version 1.3.7:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.iris.edu/ws/station/">http://www.iris.edu/ws/station/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The update is backwards compatible, for users of the DMC's Fetch scripts or Java library no change is required.</div><div><br></div><div>The changes include:</div><div><br></div><div>- Introduced new <b>output</b> parameter xml|text:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>output=xml - Results are returned in XML (StationXML) format, this is the default</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>output=text - A subset of metadata are returned in a simple text format for levels: network, station and channel</div><div><br></div><div>The text output is only supported for network, station and channel levels. This output is designed for use with web mapping or other simple station list applications.</div><div><br></div><div>- A "restricted" attribute is now populated for both channels and channel epochs, where the StationXML schema did </div><div><br></div><div>- Change association logic to allow for a more open matching of metadata (e.g. comparing station and network epochs). The end result is that more stations metadata are now returned.</div><div><br></div><div>- Improve cross-origin scripting capability by adding the HTTP header: "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *" to responses.</div><div><br></div><div>- A WADL is available at <a href="http://www.iris.edu/ws/station/application.wadl">http://www.iris.edu/ws/station/application.wadl</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>regards,</div><div>Web services team</div></body></html>