Thank you Eric for the response and references.  Yes, working with OneGeology is one of the reasons why GeoSCiML through Mapserver would be useful to us.   Their cookbooks do provide some good information.   At this point, using Apache Cocoon or moving to Geoserver/Deegree for this work seem to be the best options.<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Boisvert, Eric <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Eric.Boisvert@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca">Eric.Boisvert@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff">Deegree and GeoServer can, Mapserver is limited to GML Simple Feature (AFAIK), but XSLT over the output can do the trick in some situations.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff">See Alistair Ritchie&#39;S excellent documentation at
<a href="https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/wiki/CGIModel/GeoSciMLReferenceDataset" target="_blank">https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/wiki/CGIModel/GeoSciMLReferenceDataset</a></font></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/wiki/CGIModel/DeegreeGeoSciMLImplementation" target="_blank">
https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/wiki/CGIModel/DeegreeGeoSciMLImplementation</a></font></span></div>
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<div><span></span><font color="#0000ff">Snowflake is also an $ alternative.</font></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff">One Geology has a couple of cookbook you might be interested in.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><a href="http://www.onegeology.org/misc/downloads.html" target="_blank">http://www.onegeology.org/misc/downloads.html</a></span></div>
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<b>De la part de</b> John Callahan<br>
<b>Envoyé :</b> 25 avril 2012 13:09<br>
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<div>Does anyone have experience in implementing GeoSciML (instead of GML) through Mapserver WFS?  I&#39;ve read that Apache Cocoon can be used for an alternate XML format.  However, can Mapserver be configured to use something like OUTPUTFORMAT=GEOSCIML? </div>

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<div>Thanks for any advice.</div>
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Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware<br>
URL: <a href="http://www.dgs.udel.edu" target="_blank">http://www.dgs.udel.edu</a><br>
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