The fmt library happily accepts std::string without
any conversions.

Include spdlog via BaseLib/Logging.h, which
provides macro replacements for
ERR/DBUG/WARN/INFO...

Including
 - usage of static_cast instead of c-style cast,
 - single variable declaration per line,
 - removing const from return types
 - omit unnecessary string to char* conversions,

The used clang-tidy checks are:
google-readability-casting,
readability-const-return-type,
readability-container-size-empty,
readability-delete-null-pointer,
readability-deleted-default,
readability-else-after-return,
readability-function-size,
readability-identifier-naming,
readability-inconsistent-declaration-parameter-name,
readability-isolate-declaration,
readability-misleading-indentation,
readability-misplaced-array-index,
readability-named-parameter,
readability-redundant-*,
readability-simplify-*,
readability-static-accessed-through-instance,
readability-static-definition-in-anonymous-namespace,
readability-string-compare,
readability-uniqueptr-delete-release

Only in ERR/WARN/INFO/DBUG/OGS_FATAL and similar, not in
formatted output like xml files.

Clang format run on near-the-header lines.

Happy New Year

From llvm documentation https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/misc-string-compare.html
"A common mistake is to use the string’s compare method instead of using the equality or inequality operators. The compare method is intended for sorting functions and thus returns a negative number, a positive number or zero depending on the lexicographical relationship between the strings compared. If an equality or inequality check can suffice, that is recommended. This is recommended to avoid the risk of incorrect interpretation of the return value and to simplify the code. The string equality and inequality operators can also be faster than the compare method due to early termination."

Especially on iterator types and 'new' allocations.

many are superfluous, some could be turned into
fwd decls, some wrongly documented.

moved functions trim(), replaceString(), splitString() and template functions number2str() and str2number() into namespace BaseLib

added recent changes concerning the attachment of time series sensor data to station objects from ogs5 to ogs6, added RapidXml as a small library for reading XML files from console application, added existing xml schema files