Star2xml v1.0.0

[1.0.0] - 21-11-05

Added

• README.md - README of the project, containing all the information related to the star2xml tool (usage, prerequisites, scripts...).
• LICENSE - License applied to the star2xml project.
• star2xml.py - Main wrapper (Python script) to call the project. Can either generate XMLs based on a given tabular input, or both create them and call the secondary wrapper validateXML.py to validate them.
• validateXML.py - Secondary wrapper (Python script) of the project. Will validate the given XMLs against the given XML schemas (.xsd files).
• requirements.txt - Text file containing all required packages (with their teste versions) to run the project.
• input_configuration.yaml - Configuration file (Yaml) containing the required fields (column names) that shall appear in the input file.
• xml_schema.yaml - Configuration file (Yaml) containing general information about the project (e.g. ENA's GitHub) and the structure of each metadata object's XML, upon which XML_creator.py will iterate to construct XMLs.
• Input_reader.py - Python script to transform given input file into a dataframe.
• XML_creator.py - Python script to construct an XML based on the given input dataframe and the XML structure from xml_schemas.yaml.
• ftp_downloader.py - Python script with the required tools to download ENA's XML schemas (.xsd files) from their FTP server.
• git_downloader.py - Python script with the required tools to download ENA's XML schemas (.xsd files) from their GitHub repository.
• scripts_for_validation.py - Python script with the required tools to validate an XML against a given XML schema (.xsd file).
• utils.py - Python script with diverse functions used by other scripts (e.g. report_error_messages())
• Several images within miscellaneous/ to be referenced by star2xml's README.
• Two mock example XMLs (test_run.xml and test_sample.xml) to check what the output of the tool could be.