mapserver and XML status?

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi,

end of last year Sean Gillies started something on the Wiki, but AFAIK it
never got off the ground:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MapScriptXMLDataModelProjectProposal

In the OGC world (WMS,WFS,WCS) SOAP is slowly starting to become
incorporated, Ionic, a company from Belgium has written SOAP wrappers for
all the major OGC protocols, during the OWS-2 (OpenGIS Web Services)
testbed.

Best regards,
Bart

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:51:14 -0500, Terry Brown <tbrown at NRRI.UMN.EDU>
wrote:

> What the status of mapserver vis-a-vis XML technologies?
>
> Particularly for the mapfile end of things - I see the mapfile.dtd
> in the source tree, but that seems incomplete.
>
> I saw some comment about not wanting to introduce XML-Schemas
> because the only open source tools to handle them require C++ (or
> Java), and you don't want to add more dependencies to mapserver.
>
> But it seems to me that XML components could be developed along side
> mapserver without making mapserver dependent on them - e.g. a schema
> for writing map files in XML with an XSLT translation to the current
> ascii mapfile format in the mean time, so those who wanted could use
> it.  I know it's difficult once you let XML get its toe in the door,
> where to draw the line, do you fold a lot of documentation into the
> schema, etc. etc.
>
> Does this sound like something that might be useful?  I'd be up for
> writing a draft XML-Schema with an automatic translation to a DTD as
> a starting point.
>
> Out of curiosity and strictly as an aside, do the cross server
> interchange protocols (WMS?) use web services / SOAP type
> technologies at all?
>
> Cheers -Terry
>
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