-----Original Message----- From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeroen Ticheler Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Foundation and Mapserver MAP file manag e tool
Fully support this! I'm also looking for a DTD/schema that can produce valid Map files. MapServer may have to be modified in some parts to make sure it is consistent throughout when running map services based on files created by the schema. Also OGC specific parts have to be included in such schema to make sure we can quickly generate valid map files with OGC WMS/WCS and WFS support. I would like to use such such schema to create XSL transformations of metadata (ISO19115) stored in GeoNetwork opensource to generate map files for data producing OGC services (even on the fly). I would also use it to do XSL transformations of AXL documents I export from ArcMap using the MXD2AXL I developed to create map files straight out of ArcMap. Ciao, Jeroen On 15 Dec 2005, at 00:01, Bob Basques wrote: > Steve, > > Ok, now we're talking, XML!! Yeah, I even have a body here I can > put to work on something like this with some direction from the > rest of the community. > ><snip> Hi, I have been using XML / XSL for a while to create map files for our services. From my experience it is easier to use a database (hypersonic is very light) or MySQL and then use the SQL extensions for stylesheets (http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/extensionslib.html) this broadens the applications of this technology, e.g. you could have web app updating the database, eclipse reading either the database or xml file or 'data objects'. Whilst a schema enforces the correctness of an XML file, it doesn't support the transactional features of a database, allowing you to rollback etc. XSL is definitely the way to go though (IMHO), it is easy to use and learn. Norman
