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

[Jeff McKenna]

+1 great enhancement.

Even: Correct me if I am wrong, but since this is backward compatible we 
don't have to target this for the 8.0 Release correct?

Thanks for this.

-jeff



On 2020-03-31 9:21 a.m., Even Rouault wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm considering adding the capability to write several <MetadataURL> 
> elements in the WMS GetCapabilities response, since this is allowed by 
> the WMS standard.
> 
> There was an old ticket about that:
> 
> https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/3607
> 
> 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.
> 
> As the above sentence probably doesn't make any sense, here's an example 
> that should hopefully make it clearer:
> 
> wms_metadataurl_list "xml html"
> 
> wms_metadataurl_xml_format "text/xml"
> 
> wms_metadataurl_xml_type "TC211"
> 
> wms_metadataurl_xml_href "http://example.com/testXML"
> 
> wms_metadataurl_html_format "text/html"
> 
> wms_metadataurl_html_type "TC211"
> 
> wms_metadataurl_html_href "http://example.com/testHTML"
> 
> Thoughts ?
> 
> Even
> 
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