[mapserver-dev] hiding the geometry

[Steve Lime]

Hi Bart: I don't really recall. I suppose it stems from a geometry not being part of
the attributes for a layer and as such we were going to have to do special things one way
or another. Doing it the way it is isolated changes to a smaller portion of the code base.

Long term handling the geometry as just another attribute makes good sense.

Steve

>>> On 7/4/2008 at 9:49 AM, in message
<6332a6b8d790d9bd9cea2f1bac60e949 at pop02.backbone.tiscomhosting.nl>,
<bartvde at osgis.nl> wrote:
> Hey devs, mostly Steve though,
> 
> is there a specific reason why hiding the geometry wasn't implemented using
> gml_exclude_items?
> 
> I am trying to write some code for ticket:675, but now have to do some
> special things for the geometry attribute versus the other attributes,
> which made me wonder why it was implemented like it is now.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
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