> is it possible to include into the GetFeature-request a query > expression (for instance [ID]=5) so that only the objects, > which match the defined criteria, are returned in the response? > I would like to get all filed values of some feature not > having to scroll through the thousands of features, which I > am not interested in. >
MapServer's WFS Server includes support for Filter Encoding. So, a filter expression for id=5 would look like: http://www.example.org/wfs?service=WFS&version=1.0.0&request=GetFeature&; typename=foo&filter=<Filter><PropertyIsEqualTo><PropertyName>ID</Propert yName><Literal>5<Literal></PropertyIsEqualTo></Filter> See the Filter HOWTO (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/filterencoding) and MapServer OGC Web Services Workshop (http://ms-ogc-workshop.maptools.org/) for more info. Hope this helps. ..Tom
