: [JPP-Devel] Questions about GML 2
Martin wrote: As for auto-determining input data types, there's two
reasons we choose
to provide a template containing this and other information
- if the input file is empty you still need to know the datatype in
order to create a layer
- the template made
I'm doing some work converting GPX files into waypoint observations
stored in GML 2. I want to be able to read the GML 2 files into
OpenJUMP. I had a couple of questions that I thought you guys could
help with:
[1] I'm trying to figure out what the header of a GML 2 file should
look like. I'll be
Ideally GML documents should include a schema definition using
xsi:schemaLocation but they rarely do. If they did you could use the XML
parser to find that location and then parse the schema (not an easy task)
and then map it automatically to a FeatureSchema. Again not an easy task as
GML is
I second Paul's idea about looking at the spec for examples. You need
more gunk than is in your example - welcome to the wonderful world of XML...
As for auto-determining input data types, there's two reasons we choose
to provide a template containing this and other information
- if the input
Paul wrote: Ideally GML documents should include a schema definition
using xsi:schemaLocation but they rarely do. If they did you could use
the XML parser to find that location and then parse the schema (not an
easy task) and then map it automatically to a FeatureSchema. Again not
an easy task as
Martin wrote: As for auto-determining input data types, there's two
reasons we choose
to provide a template containing this and other information
- if the input file is empty you still need to know the datatype in
order to create a layer
- the template made it easier to specify exactly which