WMS GetFeatureInfo output formats

Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] Tom.Kralidis at EC.GC.CA
Tue Jun 21 19:02:32 EDT 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Morissette [mailto:dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 June, 2005 13:37
> To: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
> Cc: MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-DEV] WMS GetFeatureInfo output formats
> 
> 
> 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.
> > 
> 
> I think we should keep the old GML2-based format and offer 
> another type 
> for GML3L0 so that client apps that rely on the older format 
> continue to 
> work. BTW, is application/vnd.ogc.gml3l0 the recommended MIME 
> type for 
> GML3L0?
>

OGC Discussion Paper 03-003r10 cites:

x-application/gml:2
x-application/gml:3
x-application/gml:3:0

..Tom

> Daniel
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