WMS GetFeatureInfo output formats

[Daniel Morissette]

Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
> Now that WFS GetFeature responses are valid XML for both GML2 and GML3L0
> (good work Steve!), and given bug
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=801, this might be a
> good time to clean up WMS GetFeatureInfo to produce valid XML.  Having
> said this, should we also provide finer grained MIME types for supported
> GetFeatureInfo, i.e.:
> 
> application/vnd.ogc.gml
> application/vnd.ogc.gml3l0
> 
> ...or should we just cite application/vnd.ogc.gml and use GML3 from here
> on in.  Interested in people's comments on this one.
> 

I think we should keep the old GML2-based format and offer another type 
for GML3L0 so that client apps that rely on the older format continue to 
work. BTW, is application/vnd.ogc.gml3l0 the recommended MIME type for 
GML3L0?

Daniel
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