Import ISO metadata records into MCFs about pygeometa HOT 5 CLOSED

Initial work started in https://github.com/geopython/pygeometa/tree/issue-79

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Hello there,
or group would be interested exactly in both the use cases described by @alexandreleroux. At first, we would like to be able to import XML encoded sample files to understand the structure and potential use of pygeometa and MCFs for our metadata publication workflows.

@tomkralidis Has there been any progress concerning this? Has this commit from the first of Nov. 2017 made it into the master branch and, thus, could it be tested?

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There hasn't been much progress, however contributions are welcome. Note that any import to MCF type functionality from formal metadata standards will be lossy, but a full crawl of OWSLib's ISO object model will do the trick.

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I wonder if we can use the jinja template to reverse engineer the metadata structure; like described at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37813550/is-it-possible-to-use-a-jinja2-template-to-reverse-engineer-the-parameters-from

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FYI now implemented via #160.

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