[mapserver-dev] Allowing spaces in layer names (WMS/WFS)

[Even Rouault]

Le jeudi 02 juillet 2015 23:24:55, Tamas Szekeres a écrit :
> Hi All,
> 
> Thank you all for the comments. I would expect an option to provide an (XML
> friendly) alias for the layer name which would be added to the GetFeature
> response as the XML tag instead of the "real" layer name. Is that possible?
> The "title" metadata tag doesn't seem to do what we would like to achieve.

I'm not clear when you could use the "real" layer name with spaces, etc...?  I 
guess it would be invalid in both KVP and XML requests.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tamas
> 
> 2015-07-02 15:55 GMT+02:00 Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>:
> > Le jeudi 02 juillet 2015 14:16:10, Tamas Szekeres a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Could anyone explain the reason of limiting the layer names to valid
> > > XML tag names (not containing spaces or any special characters in
> > > that)? As
> > 
> > far
> > 
> > > as I know the layer names don't appear a XML tags in the OWS requests
> > 
> > and I
> > 
> > > couldn't find such limitation in the WFS specs either.
> > > Many clients uses spaces in layer names and this is causing issues for
> > 
> > us.
> > 
> > Tamas,
> > 
> > This is in fact a constraint of the WFS spec.
> > 
> > According to http://schemas.opengis.net/wfs/1.1.0/wfs.xsd,
> > 
> > <xsd:element name="Name" type="xsd:QName">
> > 
> >   <xsd:annotation><xsd:documentation>
> >   
> >                   Name of this feature type, including any namespace
> >                   prefix
> >   
> >   </xsd:documentation></xsd:annotation>
> > 
> > </xsd:element>
> > 
> > And xsd:QName, that builds upon xsd:NCName, doesn't allow spaces and many
> > other characters.
> > 
> > Even
> > 
> > 
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