[Mapserver-users] Why Mapserver GML does not validate with XMLSpy

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Daniel,

what the XMLSpy people are saying is that using & in a URL to a CGI is 
valid.

If I click on the link I do not get the schema back, I get a service 
exception report that the version is missing. Or if I use & instead of 
& even before the service=WFS name-value pair, I get the "mapserv(): Web 
application error. No template provided." error. So mapserv CGI only 
interprets name value pairs if they are separated by & instead of &.

Is this something Windows specific perhaps, you are probably on Linux when 
clicking the URL in a browser? XMLSpy is on Windows as well ofcourse.

Best regards,
Bart

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:23:53 -0400, Daniel Morissette 
<dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:

> Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> the guys at Altova (XMLSpy) seem to have a different opinion on this 
>> subject, see:
>>
>> http://www.altova.com/forum/forums/forum.asp?forumid=28&page=1&select=4262#xx4262xx
>
> Different opinion on what?  They wrote that the ampersand needs to be 
> escaped in the instance document, which is exactly in line with what I 
> wrote. I also added that the client needs to unescape the string 
> *before* calling the server and they suggest that this is what is being 
> done:
>
>>
>> ...so this is the URL:
>> http://www.vz.geodan.nl:1112/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms4w_20/apps/general/map/gemeentes.map&SERVICE=WFS&amp;VERSION=1.0.0&amp;REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType&amp;TYPENAME=Gemeentes 
>> ...being sent to the server. This is a perfectly valid construction:
>>
>> http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200104/msg01061.html
>>
>> ...that your CGI application or web server seems to be having problems 
>> handling correctly.
>>
>
> ... if I click on the URL above I see a XML schema as expected from a 
> DescribeFeatureType response. So what's the problem exactly? What does 
> he mean by "having problems handling correctly"?
>
> Perhaps I missed something obvious at the beginning? Is it that the 
> schema that is returned is not valid?
>
> Daniel



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