[postgis-devel] ST_asGML strictness

[Olivier Courtin]

On Mar 23, 2010, at 12:30 AM, strk wrote:


>> Well i was also curently working on it...
>>
>> Still have to debug/cunit and document it
>
> Oops, I've already committed the liblwgeom/ part and cunit.
> Sorry if I didn't announce the start of this.

Yeap lack of communication on this one,
Hopefully not spend too much time on this...

> I kind of don't like the fact it would then be possible to say
> "no prefix" with 4th arg and still pass a 5th arg with another
> prefix. Also I don't find the 'options' parameter very friendly
> to use.

I agree on both !


> But anyway my solution also doesn't convince me much, it being:
> 	omitted or null prefix : <prefix> == "gml"
> 	non-empty prefix       : <prefix> + :
> 	empty prefix           : no prefix (and no colon)

Seems good to me,

As you keep backward compatibility,
with the 'omitted' case

> what doesn't convince me much with this is the impossibility
> to get a prefix consisting of an empty string + a ':' character.

I don't get this point,
what do you mean ?

> So all in all I'm happy if you take care of the interface part
> and am fine with your solution.

I will look (soon) at the new liblwgeom commited code,
and keep you on touch on this

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Olivier