Hi Seth: I don't think adding it would be difficult. What would the emitted attribute look like w/that property added? --Steve
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 4:11 PM Seth G <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is anyone aware of any OGC service which can return comments for a layer > attribute/field? > The WFS DescribeFeatureType [1] seems the most likely candidate but has no > "description" or equivalent property at the attribute level. Attributes are > returned as follows: > > <xs:element name="field1" type="xs:double" nillable="true" minOccurs="0"/> > > The docs for the WFS layer object > https://www.mapserver.org/ogc/wfs_server.html#layer-object allow the > following to be set for each attribute: > > gml_[item name]_alias > gml_[item name]_precision > gml_[item name]_type > gml_[item name]_value > gml_[item name]_width > > It would be nice if there was an option to set something like the > following, and have it returned as part of the layer metadata: > > gml_[item name]_description > > This way the automated parts of the attribute (type, precision etc.) could > be included along with a description of what the field contains. > > Does anyone have a way of handling this with MapServer? > > Seth > > [1] > http://opengeospatial.github.io/e-learning/wfs/text/operations.html#describefeaturetype > > > -- > web:http://geographika.co.uk > twitter: @geographika > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users >
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