Hi Tom,
thanks for the agreement.
Wrt the OGR GML code, we had a lot of discussion there as well. Now it
just replaces : by _ for attributes.
Their argument is that if it would take off all namespaces, there could
be name clashes for attributes. That seems a reasonable enough argument.
Best regards,
Bart
Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
Hi,
I agree w/ Bart here. I would prefer to use a default namespace (i.e. xmlns=...), as
opposed to explicitly specifying this in the output, for elements not carried by gml: or
wfs:. The default namespace would be either what the user defines in wfs_namespace_uri,
or, if not specified, would default to "http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver";.
Having said this, I'm not sure how much of this is in MapServer code vs. the
OGR GML code.
..Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List on behalf of Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)
Sent: Wed 26-Jul-06 14:39
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Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] WFS: why not use the default namespace?
Hi list,
why doesn't Mapserver WFS use the default namespace, i.e.:
xmlns="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver";
so that it does not have to put ms: in front of all the elements?
I am asking this since we have a problem converting Mapserver GML into
ESRI Shapefile using ogr2ogr. The attribute names will come out as
ms_XXXX which confuses users who are also familiar with the native data.
Hope to hear some thoughts on this.
Best regards,
Bart
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Bart van den Eijnden
OSGIS, Open Source GIS
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