Hi Even,

but if you look at the schema [1], a value of 0 makes more sense to me (default 
value is 0 and not 1):

<xsd:attribute name="startIndex" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger" default="0"/>

[1] http://schemas.opengis.net/wfs/2.0/wfs.xsd

Best regards,
Bart

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On Jan 4, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Even Rouault wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I read with interest
> http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/2011/12/wfs-for-masses-adding-support-for.html
> and decided to play with GeoServer 2.1.3 and its paging support a bit, with 
> the
> OGR WFS driver.
> 
> I've tested on the samples (tiger:poi layer) and discovered that GeoServer 
> takes
> as convention that STARTINDEX=0 is the first feature. The issue is that
> MapServer 6 took the convention that STARTINDEX=1 is the first feature, and 
> this
> is the convention I used to write the OGR WFS driver.
> 
> I decided to read again the WFS 2.0 spec PDF and unfortunately I find it quite
> ambiguous in the spec part, but in the "B.8.4.7 Example 7" section, it reads :
> 
> """
> Find the 5th highest mountain in the region around the Himalayas.
> 
> http://www.someserver.com/wfs.cgi?
> SERVICE=WFS&
> VERSION=2.0.0&
> REQUEST=GetFeature&
> TYPENAMES=Mountains&
> BBOX=27.6669,86.4800,28.2709,87.2120&
> SORTBY=Elevation DESC&
> STARTINDEX=5&
> COUNT=1
> """
> 
> which would confirm the interpretation of STARTINDEX=1 for the first feature,
> and STARTINDEX=0.
> 
> Any thoughts ?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Even
> 
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