Hi Jaz

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Jez Walters <[email protected]> wrote:
> Martin,
>
>
> When I convert Ordnance Survey MasterMap GML to ESRI Shapefiles using 
> ogr2ogr, I'm getting different field numbers for the same field name in 
> different GML chunk files.  Apologies if I have the wrong end of the stick, 
> but wouldn't your proposed interface therefore require me to invoke ogr2ogr 
> differently for each different GML chunk file, in order to accommodate the 
> different field ordering?

The proposed API addition doesn't affect the behavior of existing
applications such as ogr2ogr.

> Assuming I'm right, wouldn't it be more useable for the interface to use 
> field names rather than numbers?

IMHO for developers it's easier to work with indexes of fields rather
than with their names.

Regards
Martin
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