Larry,

> Thanks Simon.  Your examples help.  Let us know if you write that blog 
> article.

http://www.spatialdbadvisor.com/oracle_spatial_tips_tricks/110/esri-arcsde-exverted-and-inverted-polygons-and-oracle-spatial

Aron,

> Forgive me, if my comments are somewhat confusing.
> 
> The isolated ERSI holes, are not added to the other inner rings. All isolated 
> ESRI holes are added as interior rings to the polygon being processed.

Can you explain this some more?
 
> Prior to writing the converter I did some interactive experiments with 
> ArcSDE. I found out, that ArcSDE actually accepts ESRI-loops sitting on the 
> outer side on an interior ring in a JTS polygon.

Can you try the exverted and inverted polygons describe in the above article 
and tell me what happens? It should be as I expect but I have not used ArcSDE 
for over 4 years so I can't be sure if the issue is still as I described it.
 
> ArcSDE will even accept multiple loops sitting on the outside of the exterior 
> ring in a JTS polygon. Such a polygon would need to be converted to a JTS 
> multipolygon, if it going to be SFS/JTS valid. The converter will not perform 
> such a conversion, as I think it is an error, to have such polygons in the 
> first place.

This sounds like an exverted polygon. So, ESRI will accept it, but JTS (because 
it is OGC SFS based) will not?

regards
S
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