[mapserver-users] wms servers html template output

[Lime, Steve D (MNIT)]

Hi Travis: I don’t think there is an “easy” way. I mean you could script template creation so that process does the tedious work for you by looking at the map. You would create a new-style template (see RFC 36) so everything is in one file and then you’d create a single output format reference to that table.

If we wanted to support this via MapServer templates I think we’d need to do 3 things:


·         Extend the [resultset] tag to support “layer_pattern” attribute so that it (a regex) could apply to multiple layers (like any/all of them).

·         Enhance the [items] and [values] tags to control formatting. Currently those just slam the column names and values together in a delimited string.

·         Enhance the [values] tag processing to allow referencing the associated item/column name in the context of formatting.

I’d probably also propose compliance with the item-related metadata that is typically used with OGC service outputs to control which items are output…

With those changes you could write a template like so:

// MapServer Template
[resultset layer_pattern="."]
[feature]
<table>
[values format=”<tr><td>$item</td><td>$value</td></tr>]
</table>
[/feature]
[resultset]

This would give you an item/value table for any feature for any layer. You could also to more horizontal tables using the [items] tag to output one header row…

--Steve


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Hi all,

I'm struggling a bit with using a generic template for html getfeatureinfo requests.  Is there a easy way to create a simple html table containing the attribute field names and values for any layer.  I don't want to create a separate template for each layer.  Thanks

There was some mention of this here:
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Generic-template-for-WMS-GetFeatureInfo-td4227865.html<https://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fosgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com%2FGeneric-template-for-WMS-GetFeatureInfo-td4227865.html&data=02%7C01%7Csteve.lime%40state.mn.us%7Caa1eb890540341ecbbab08d75178d454%7Ceb14b04624c445198f26b89c2159828c%7C0%7C1%7C637067451709877574&sdata=Dl5OEEEfUDw9q020aW453wCbHjNt9pOSMYDzQrW5QXo%3D&reserved=0>

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