FWD: [mapserver-users] warning in capabilities XML output

[Daniel Morissette]

About the XML parsing error, see
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/wilma/mapserver-users/0206/msg00443.html

Daniel


Hao Ding wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The warning disappeared when I add metadata 'WMS_GROUP_TITLE' in the layer
> metadata. The new problem is the capabilities XML output is failed to be
> parsed.
> The code in my program is:
> 
> Document xmlDoc = XmlDocument.createXmlDocument(xmlSource)
> 
> The 'xmlSource' is the capabilties request UEL.
> It works well with the URL
> "http://wmt.digitalearth.gov/cgi-bin/wmt.cgi?REQUEST=GetCapabilities", which
> is capabilities of the NASA wms map server.
> 
> Now I replaced the URL with mine
> "http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=demo.map&REQUEST=GetCapabilities"
> 
> I got the error parse message:
> 
> SAXException Illegal character or entity reference syntax.
> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Illegal character or entity reference syntax.
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3182)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3170)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseLiteral(Parser2.java:748)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeElement(Parser2.java:1399)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.content(Parser2.java:1779)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeElement(Parser2.java:1507)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.content(Parser2.java:1779)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeElement(Parser2.java:1507)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:500)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:305)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:442)
>         at
> org.apache.crimson.tree.XmlDocument.createXmlDocument(XmlDocument.java:315)     at
> org.apache.crimson.tree.XmlDocument.createXmlDocument(XmlDocument.java:208)     at
> wms.wmsCatelog.main(wmsCatelog.java:32)
> 
> I think there must be something wrong in the capabilities xml output (see
> attached file). I am not sure if it is my fault that cause some problems in
> the xml output. Thanks for your help!
> 
> Regards,
> Ding
> 
> >===== Original Message From Hao Ding <hdi12 at it.canterbury.ac.nz> =====
> Hi,
> 
> I set up the mapserver as the WMS server. In the capabilities XML output there
> was a warning:
> 
> WARNING:Mandatory metadata 'WMS_GROUP_TITLE' was missing in this context
> 
> I did not found any discription about the metadata 'WMS_GROUP_TITLE' in the
> "Mapserver WMS Server How To".  Where should this mandatory metadata be set in
> the mapfile?  Thanks for any help!
> 
> Regards,
> Ding
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                   Name: mapserv.txt
>    mapserv.txt    Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
>               Encoding: BASE64