addition of language metadata

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

Bart,

I've implemented this on my local CVS, and will open a bug report for
the record.

..Tom
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) [mailto:bartvde at osgis.nl] 
> Sent: 02 November, 2006 1:55 PM
> To: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
> Cc: MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-DEV] addition of language metadata
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> I think this would be valuable. In The Netherlands a WMS 
> profile is being developed, and one of the things is that 
> GetFeatureInfo needs to be given at least in Dutch. So it 
> would be good being able to specify the language explicitly. 
> But I guess you're talking about exception messages only for now.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] schreef:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone think that something like:
> >
> > MAP/WEB/METADATA/"ows_language"
> >
> > Would be valuable?  Note that language is a part of the OGC 
> OWS Common 
> > 1.0.0 specification.  Example:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <ows:ExceptionReport 
> > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> > xmlns:ows="http://www.opengis.net/ows" version="0.0.31" 
> language="en-CA"
> > xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/ows
> > http://schemas.opengeospatial.net/ows/1.0.0/owsExceptionReport.xsd">
> >   <ows:Exception exceptionCode="MissingParameterValue"
> > locator="layers"/>
> > </ows:ExceptionReport>
> >
> > Codewise, I would see something like, in mapows.c:
> >
> > const char *msOWSGetLanguage(mapObj *map) {
> >     const char *language;
> >
> >     language = msLookupHashTable(&(map->web.metadata), 
> "ows_language");
> >     if (language == NULL) {
> >       language = "undefined";
> >     }
> >     return language;
> > }
> >
> > Benefits:
> >
> > - OWS clients will be aware of the language of the OWS XML content
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > ..Tom
> >
> >
> >   
> 
> 
> --
> Bart van den Eijnden
> OSGIS, Open Source GIS
> bartvde at osgis.nl
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> 
>