[Mapserver-users] Why Mapserver GML does not validate with XMLSpy

[Daniel Morissette]

Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> the guys at Altova (XMLSpy) seem to have a different opinion on this 
> subject, see:
> 
> http://www.altova.com/forum/forums/forum.asp?forumid=28&page=1&select=4262#xx4262xx 
> 

Different opinion on what?  They wrote that the ampersand needs to be 
escaped in the instance document, which is exactly in line with what I 
wrote. I also added that the client needs to unescape the string 
*before* calling the server and they suggest that this is what is being 
done:

> 
> ...so this is the URL:
> http://www.vz.geodan.nl:1112/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms4w_20/apps/general/map/gemeentes.map&SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType&TYPENAME=Gemeentes 
> 
> 
> 
> ...being sent to the server. This is a perfectly valid construction:
> 
> http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200104/msg01061.html
> 
> ...that your CGI application or web server seems to be having problems 
> handling correctly.
> 

... if I click on the URL above I see a XML schema as expected from a 
DescribeFeatureType response. So what's the problem exactly? What does 
he mean by "having problems handling correctly"?

Perhaps I missed something obvious at the beginning? Is it that the 
schema that is returned is not valid?

Daniel
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