WMS GetFeatureInfo output formats

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

Would you have some comparison of ArcXML vs. current WMS GetFeatureInfo
XML response?  I'd be interested to see what can be gained here, as
opposed to adding another format.

..Tom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Ramsey [mailto:pramsey at refractions.net] 
> Sent: Monday, 20 June, 2005 12:14
> To: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
> Cc: MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU; Mark Leslie
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-DEV] WMS GetFeatureInfo output formats
> 
> 
> Using GML 2.1 would allow uDig to consume the results a 
> little easier... 
> so I would like that :)
> On an unrelated note, would anyone object to our adding ArcXML as an 
> output format for GetFeatureInfo? It is actually the best fit for 
> Mapservers internal data structures, and is already advertised by a 
> large number of "WMS" servers :)
> Paul
> 
> Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
> 
> > Now that WFS GetFeature responses are valid XML for both GML2 and 
> > GML3L0 (good work Steve!), and given bug 
> > http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=801, this 
> might be a 
> > good time to clean up WMS GetFeatureInfo to produce valid 
> XML.  Having 
> > said this, should we also provide finer grained MIME types for 
> > supported GetFeatureInfo, i.e.:
> > 
> > application/vnd.ogc.gml
> > application/vnd.ogc.gml3l0
> > 
> > ...or should we just cite application/vnd.ogc.gml and use GML3 from 
> > here on in.  Interested in people's comments on this one.
> > 
> > ..Tom
> 
>