Re: [Geoserver-devel] Proposal: graduate the XSLT module to extension status

2013-04-09 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
+1. The XSLT module ticks all the quality boxes, including substantial documentation. I can think of a bunch of interesting uses cases, including fake complex features (unless we have reverse XSLT like deegree 2 or apache cocoon to support filters!) or an output format to simplify/translate a

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Proposal: graduate the XSLT module to extension status

2013-04-09 Thread Andrea Aime
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Phil Scadden wrote: > > > Simple, you don't. > > Okay, I will put a particular use-case to you then. Suppose you have an > database file with rather ugly set of attributes. (ie highly normalised > or coded attributes). In an ideal world you would construct a view

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Proposal: graduate the XSLT module to extension status

2013-04-08 Thread Phil Scadden
> Simple, you don't. Okay, I will put a particular use-case to you then. Suppose you have an database file with rather ugly set of attributes. (ie highly normalised or coded attributes). In an ideal world you would construct a view that delivers human-readable form and serve that from geoserv

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Proposal: graduate the XSLT module to extension status

2013-04-08 Thread Justin Deoliveira
+1. On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Andrea Aime wrote: > On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Phil Scadden wrote: > >> Hi. I looked at the documentation page. What is not clear to me is how >> you request a particular transform when making a getfeature request. >> > > Simple, you don't. > The XSLT mo

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Proposal: graduate the XSLT module to extension status

2013-04-08 Thread Andrea Aime
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Phil Scadden wrote: > Hi. I looked at the documentation page. What is not clear to me is how > you request a particular transform when making a getfeature request. > Simple, you don't. The XSLT module is an output format generator just like the OGR output format,

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Proposal: graduate the XSLT module to extension status

2013-04-07 Thread Phil Scadden
Hi. I looked at the documentation page. What is not clear to me is how you request a particular transform when making a getfeature request. Otherwise +1 -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5