[mapserver-users] XML Metadata management

[Hockaday, John]

Hi Lyndon,

You can use XSL to convert your XML files on the fly into any format that
you want to display.  You will need an XSL file that maps the XML elements
into the format that you want to display and you will need an XSLT parser
that will read that XSL and the XML file and do the processing.

This is the method used to convert GML into SVG so that XML files can be
viewed using an SVG browser plugin.

John Hockaday

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Lyndon Zimmermann [SMTP:lyndon.zimmermann at adelaide.edu.au]
> Sent:	Thursday, August 30, 2001 11:12 AM
> Cc:	mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject:	[mapserver-users] XML Metadata management
> 
> Greetings all,
> One of the great joys of any GIS project is, of course, preparing and
> delivering the metadata.  The national co-ordinators of the metadata
> project here in Oz have decided on an XML format and provided tools for
> generating data in this format.  
> 
> The concept is great, but I'm now trying to work out how to deliver this
> metadata.  Can anyone give me quick rundown on how this works?  I think
> it's a template read by your favourite browser that allows you to select
> your metadata XML file, then delivers it in accordance with the
> template.  Or is it driven by some server application?
> 
> Lyndon Z
> 
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