Hi,

You can’t have & in feature type names or attribute names in WFS because they 
are defined in the XML schema to be “QName”. The prefix and LocalPart are of 
type NCName https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QName and from 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1631396/what-is-an-xsncname-type-and-when-should-it-be-used

The practical restrictions of NCName are that it cannot contain several symbol 
characters like :, @, $, %, &, /, +, ,, ;, whitespace characters or different 
parenthesis. Furthermore an NCName cannot begin with a number, dot or minus 
character although they can appear later in an NCName.

-Jukka Rahkonen-

Lähettäjä: mapserver-users [mailto:[email protected]] 
Puolesta Ian Walberg
Lähetetty: 14. huhtikuuta 2016 19:23
Vastaanottaja: MapserverList OSGEO
Aihe: [mapserver-users] WFS layer - XML/JSON safe chars

Folks,

Can mapserver produce XML or JSON safe characters for WFS served data or do we 
need to ensure the source data has the escaped values.

We got tripped up today as there were some ‘&’ in our names which we had not 
considered.

Thanks

Ian
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