[gdal-dev] in memory KML

[Frank Warmerdam]

Clay, Bruce wrote:
> After a bit more digging I am not sure I asked the right question.
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> What I want to do is read feature information from a shapefile or other 
> data source and get a string that contains the feature information 
> encoded in KML that I can pass directly into Google Earth.  I know I can 
> do this operation is I open the shapefile write the KML data to disk 
> then open the kml file up with fopen then read it into memory and send 
> it t Google Earth but I would like to save the disk write the read 
> operation.
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> Any thoughts?

Bruce,

I've skimmed the KML driver and there is no sign that it uses the VSI*L
API for file access, so I don't see any way you can write results to a
memory buffer without substantial recoding in the kml driver.

Best regards,
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