VOEvent-parse
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A lightweight library for parsing, manipulating, and generating VOEvent_  XML
packets, build atop `lxml.objectify`_ .

An introduction may be found in the
`online documentation <http://voevent-parse.readthedocs.org>`_,
or in raw form `here <documentation/source/index.rst>`_.

Alternatively you may want to jump right in and get started with
the accompanying
`tutorial notebooks <https://github.com/timstaley/voevent-parse-tutorial>`_.

If you make use of *voevent-parse* in work leading to a publication, we ask
that you cite the `ASCL entry <http://ascl.net/1411.003>`_.

.. _VOEvent: http://voevent.readthedocs.io/
.. _lxml.objectify: http://lxml.de/objectify.html