[gdal-dev] kml file does not open with ogrinfo but works with GE

[Even Rouault]

Le jeudi 03 janvier 2013 13:08:28, Roger Bivand a écrit :
> If you change utf-16 in the first line to utf-8, then change line 2:

The encoding specification is indeed incorrect (UTF-16 is a 2-byte encoding, 
and the file is really ASCII / UTF-8) --> the software that generated that file 
should be fixed. No XML parser should accept that. Expat refuses it, libxml2 
refuses it. libkml (developed by Google) also refuses it (it uses expat 
underneath). Not sure what GoogleEarth uses it, but must be some custom XML 
parser.

> 
> <Document xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2"
> xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2">
> 
> to
> 
> <kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2">
> 
> and the final line from </Document> to </kml> to match, gdalinfo recognises
> the file.

I've just made a tiny change in the KML driver to recognize a KML document 
with <Document> as the root node. The LIBKML driver (based on Google libkml) 
already recognized the file (once the encoding declaration changed of course).