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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We have multiple map files (undefined number, could
be thousands) and we would like to be compliant with OpenGIS
standards.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Actually, we are not because a global
GetCapabilities request can not work because of our mutiple map
files.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So we would like to have global GetCapabilities
requests working.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Multiple GetCapabilities on each of our map files is not what we want
because those map files are dynamically generated. </DIV>
<DIV>So client softwares should have to know every of our map files in order to
be able to request the whole data.</DIV>
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<DIV>Is this possible to have a single map file referencing multiple map files
?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There is the cascading wms possibility but, from
what I have seen on the web, it doesn't fetch the GetCapbilities of the
underlying map server map files' so it doesn't work for us.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The only way I see is catching GetCapabilities
requests, then foreach of the map files, submit a single a GetCapabilities, and
then, merge all the xml responses in a single xml response.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there something else ??</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Benoît Andrieu</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>