[OpenLayers-Users] WMSGetFeatureInfo: find out layer names

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Frank,

the feature.type property has the name of the layer.

Best regards,
Bart

On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Frank Broniewski wrote:

> Hello list,
> 
> I am using the WMSGetFeatureInfo function for querying my WMS layers. Works 
> like a charm.
> In my map I have the possibility to query more than one layer for 
> information. And now I search for a solution to find out for what layer the 
> response was returned. Looking at the returned result from Firebug I can see 
> that the common structure for the response is <msGMLOutput> and the next 
> node child contains the layer name with the extension _layer. How can I 
> access this node?
> 
> Right now I use the following approach to work with the reponse:
> 	var reader = new OpenLayers.Format.WMSGetFeatureInfo();
> 	var features = reader.read(response.text);
> 
> Does the read_msGMLOutput give me more options to work with the returned 
> XML? Or do I need to convert the response to an OpenLayers.Format.XML first?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
> Frank Broniewski
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