On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Santiago Timón <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have several shapefile datastores and I would like to show in a client
> application the set of attributes for a given layer. Is it possible to
> obtain the set of data columns via WFS?
>

Use the DescribeFeatureType WFS request, it gives you back the xml schema
of the GML, which in turns contains all elements and their types

Cheers
Andrea


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