WFS Server default namespace prefix

Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] Tom.Kralidis at EC.GC.CA
Thu Sep 8 11:29:10 EDT 2005


OK, filed http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1461

Picking a namespace: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-decl.  It
doesn't have to point to anything.

..Tom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Morissette [mailto:dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca] 
>
> I see no problem. Perhaps file a bug and we'll change it.
> 
> BTW, are there rules for properly chosing a URI? Does 
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver need to point (or not 
> to point) 
> to anything?
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
> > For WFS server, if one does not assign the following in the mapfile 
> > WEB
> > object:
> > 
> > wfs_namespace_uri
> > 
> > wfs_namespace_prefix
> > 
> > The following values are assigned as default:
> > 
> > "wfs_namespace_uri" "http://www.ttt.org/myns" (as it happens, 
> > http://www.ttt.org is a website :))
> > 
> > "wfs_namespace_prefix" "myns"
> > 
> > I would like to propose a more indicative and appropriate 
> namespace as 
> > the default if nothing is specified in the mapfile.
> > 
> > "wfs_namespace_uri" "http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver"
> > "wfs_namespace_prefix" "ms"
> > 
> > Affected code would be in mapwfs.c
> > 
> > Comments?
> > 
> > ..Tom
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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>   Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
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