[Gdal-dev] Re: [FWTools] Documentation and delivery of REC, GRASS, GPX, GML and Interlis drivers

[Even Rouault]

Le Monday 19 November 2007 02:24:49 Frank Warmerdam, vous avez écrit :

> > * GPX writing: The Web documenation says: "OGR has support for GPX
> > reading (if GDAL is build with expat library support) and writing." From
> > this, reading is not optional; so the following should work - but
> > doesn't: $ ogrinfo -ro -al test.gpx
>
> The GPX support is very new, perhaps it was introduced after the last
> FWTools release?  I see FWTools is built against expat (at least on
> linux) and so we can reasonably expect GPX support.  Hmm, I think expat
> is missing on windows (other than the expat for OGDI) so I'm not sure
> what will happen there.
>

I have looked at the symbols exported by libgdal.so from Linux FWTools 2.0. 
Nothing related to GPX. So I guess I commited this work after FWTools 2.0 
release.

And to make things clearer, GPX reading requires expat. But writing doesn't.

Best regards