[gdal-dev] WCS driver

[Even Rouault]

On lundi 30 octobre 2017 10:54:56 CET Ari Jolma wrote:
> Ari Jolma kirjoitti 24.10.2017 klo 17:07:
> > Whoa! How hard can XML be? I have a real Capabilities document (from
> > well known company) which defines *both* default and ows namespace to
> > http://www.opengis.net/ows/2.0.
> 
> Seems that XML is actually much harder than that :)
> 
> XML namespaces can be declared in any element and then they are in
> effect in that element and in all of its children unless they override
> the namespace declarations.
> 
> For example Rasdaman seems to write XML like that.
> 
> I'm wondering how much benefit there is from looking into the namespaces
> in WCS responses. Probably not much in practise. Not a lot of benefit
> from a lot of work if I implement those rules.

Yes, XML can be a pain.

Did you see my past suggestion of just stripping all namespace prefixes from elements with
CPLStripXMLNamespace(psRoot, NULL, TRUE) ?

I don't expect namespace ambiguities in the case of decoding WCS GetCapabilities or 
GetCoverage responses.

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