[mapserver-dev] Writing several <MetadataURL> in WMS GetCapabilities response

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi Even: approach makes sense to me.  Would this also apply to the
other OWS metadataurl (WFS, WCS, etc.)?

..Tom

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 8:27 AM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I'm considering adding the capability to write several <MetadataURL> elements in the WMS GetCapabilities response, since this is allowed by the WMS standard.
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> There was an old ticket about that:
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> https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/3607
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> I'm considering the following backward compatible syntax where a wms_metadataurl_list could be specified to give a list of items, that would be used as suffix for metadata keys, such that wms_metadataurl_{item} would be the actual key radix used to fetch the _format, _type and _href items.
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> As the above sentence probably doesn't make any sense, here's an example that should hopefully make it clearer:
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> wms_metadataurl_list "xml html"
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> wms_metadataurl_xml_format "text/xml"
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> wms_metadataurl_xml_type "TC211"
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> wms_metadataurl_xml_href "http://example.com/testXML"
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> wms_metadataurl_html_format "text/html"
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> wms_metadataurl_html_type "TC211"
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> wms_metadataurl_html_href "http://example.com/testHTML"
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> Thoughts ?
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> Even
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