[Mapserver-users] potential problem with layer names containi ng spaces

[Doug Cates]

Tom,

Agreed, but the issue will come up again when outputting GML2 which is
the default for WFS.

Doug


On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 09:50, Tom Kralidis [Burlington] wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bartvde at xs4all.nl [mailto:bartvde at xs4all.nl]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:09 PM
> > To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > Subject: [Mapserver-users] potential problem with layer names containing
> spaces
> > 
> > 
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > I have encountered a potential problem with layer names
> > containing spaces. This will lead to invalid GML responses 
> > when requesting GetFeatureInfo in the GML format.
> > 
> > What would be a good solution to overcome this?
> > 
> 
> This can also be painful to parse for some who wish to process
> GetFeatureInfo responses.  
> 
> Suggest to abstract the GetFeatureInfo reponse construct to not include data
> as element names and / or attributes, yet values of said.
> 
> i.e.
> 
> <Layer name="Groningen kust vlakken 2002">
>  <Feature>
>  ...
>  </Feature>
> </Layer>
> 
> ..Tom
> 
> 
> 
> > > a. when parsing the mapfile make sure no spaces are contained
> > > in layer names (or is this too rigorous for applications not 
> > > using GML?)
> > > 
> > > b. when generating the GML for GetFeatureInfo check the layer
> > > names or check if the generated GML is valid and well-formed? 
> > > If the GML is not valid or not well-formed it is better to 
> > > generate a WMS Exception I guess than generating invalid GML.
> > > 
> > > Any thoughts on this?
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > > Bart
> > > 
> > > excerpt:
> > > 
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> > > <msGMLOutput
> > > 	 xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
> > > 	 xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
> > > 	 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
> > > 	<Groningen kust vlakken 2002_layer>
> > > 		<Groningen kust vlakken 2002_feature>
> > > 			<AREA>51785.891</AREA>
> > > 			<PERIMETER>1290.295</PERIMETER>
> > > 			<ZOSTOT>2</ZOSTOT>
> > > 			<ZOSNOL>2</ZOSNOL>
> > > 			<ZOSMAR>0</ZOSMAR>
> > > etc.
> > > 
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