[mapserver-users] XML mapfile?

[Ryan, Adam]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I want to load just the selected recordset as an XML string.  Then display
an abbreviated table 1, say name and address, and then a more extensive
table 2.  User selects a record from Table 1 and Table 2 is populated...

Still tinkering...

Adam Ryan
Linn County GIS

-----Original Message-----
From: C F [mailto:gis_consultant at hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 8:41 AM
To: ARyan at co.linn.or.us
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] XML mapfile?


Hi Ryan,
I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do.  Could you try explaining it 
again?
I understand the first part about how you're creating an XML string and 
loading it into the DOM....  Are you talking about loading a whole DB table 
in there?
Or are you just talking about using it to display the same recordset in 
different ways?

>From: "Ryan, Adam" <ARyan at co.linn.or.us>
>To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] XML mapfile?
>Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 13:10:44 -0700
>
>
>OK.  I'm new to XML and DOM but wouldn't I be able to use javascript to...
>
>Create a text variable in XML format with result attribute data that grows
>with every reiteration of the query template...
>
>Then use that text var to load in an XML into memory like this:
>
>var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
>xmlDoc.async="false"
>xmlDoc.loadXML(myTextVariable)
>
>Then set up one abbreviated table a user could click on to populate a more
>extensive table so they can find the lot they're looking for without
>repeated calls to mapserver.
>
>If I wanted to allow the user to 'click to see map' I would need to add
>certain values from the query results to the XML text, like [shpmid] and
>[shpext].  What else?
>
>This is the process I'm going to try...am I asking for trouble or is this
>commonly done or what?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Adam Ryan
>Linn County
>

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