[gdal-dev] Call for discussion for "RFC 43 GDALMajorObject::GetMetadataDomainList()"

[xavier lhomme]

Hi
  Is there a way to export Metadata in a XML form (ISO 19139 XML
implementation of ISO 19115 ) ?

xav


2013/10/19 Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org>

> Hi,
>
> This is a call for discussion for "RFC 43
> GDALMajorObject::GetMetadataDomainList()" :
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc43_getmetadatadomainlist
>
> Beginning of the RFC inline :
> """
>
> == Summary ==
>
> This (mini)RFC proposes a new virtual method, GetMetadataDomainList(), in
> the
> GDALMajorObject class (and a C API) to return the list of all available
> metadata domains.
>
> == Background ==
>
> GDALMajorObject currently offers the GetMetadata() and GetMetadataItem()
> methods that both accept a metadata domain argument. But there is no way to
> auto-discover which metadata domains are valid for a given GDALMajorObject
> (i.e. a dataset or raster band). This make it impossible to have generic
> code
> that can exhaustively discover all metadata in a dataset/raster band.
>
> [...]
>
> """
>
> Best regards,
>
> Even
>
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