[OpenLayers-Users] store getfeatureinfo results in variables

[stash]

Roald de Wit-2 wrote:
> 
> Hi  stash,
> 
> stash wrote:
>> Hi Roald,
>> thanks for your answer. I know it would be much easier if I used a wfs
>> getfeature instead of a wms getfeatureinfo. But the problem is that my
>> proxyhost doesn't work (I don't know why and I spent so much time in
>> solving
>> this problem), therefore I want to solve my problem with a wms.
>>
>> You wrote that it is sometimes possible to get a xml back even with wms.
>> What do you mean by this?
>>   
> Different WMS servers have different output formats for GetFeaturInfo. 
> IIRC you are using GeoServer. If that is correct, you can specify the 
> INFO_FORMAT to be 'application/vnd.ogc.gml', then you could pass the 
> output to the OL GML reader which looks a bit like this:
> 
> var gmlReader = new OpenLayers.Format.GML();
> 
> var features = gmlReader.read(data); // assuming the result of the 
> output is in the variable called data
> 
> Then you can loop through the features and change the attribute 
> information any way you like and visualise it any way you want.
> 
> Regards, Roald
> 
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Thanks. That's a good advice. I tried it and I get back a gml with all the
features .That's great. But unfortunately I can't read it with my gmlReader.
What value do I have to insert at gmlreader.read(data) instead of data so
that i can read my output.

Thanks for the help.

Regards
stash

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