On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Justin Deoliveira <[email protected]
> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Andrea Aime 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> when dealing with 3 dimensional data we genate GML that has the
>> srsDimension attribute
>> at the geometry level.
>> It's a good place, it avoid repeating the attribute in all posLists
>> around the code, however,
>> the GML specification is not clear about how it is supposed to be
>> handled, the spec
>> says that srsName is inherited by the contained elements, but does not
>> say anything about
>> srsDimension.
>>
>> Turns out there is software around (NTS) that is not able to deal with
>> srsDimension at the
>> geometry level, and works only if it is specified at the posList level
>> instead.
>>
>> How do you feel about having srsDimension be specified also at the
>> posList level?
>> Or would it be better to specify it only there to avoid the duplication?
>>
>
>  My initial thought is that adding the attribute for a single client may
> be a bit much. How about adding a configuration option to engage it?
>

Eh, yes, that's the only example I have, at the same time the spec leaves
room for this
kind of interpretation.

About the configuration, would a system variable do?

Cheers
Andrea

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