[Mapserver-users] XML Mapfile

[Paul Spencer]

Um.  This sounds a lot like Web Map Contexts ;)  Except that only works 
with WMS data ... but how were you thinking that the client would 
request the map remotely?

Paul

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:

> Sean Gillies wrote:
> 
>> On May 28, 2004, at 5:16 AM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> There is a pretty extensive discussion on XML mapfiles in the 
>>> archives, did anything come of this? Did anyone build any conversion 
>>> tools?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>   -Steve W.
>>>
>>
>> My XML project is not yet bearing any fruit.  Are you going to the 
>> users meeting?
>> Maybe we could see if any like-minded folks want to discuss it there.
> 
> 
> MUM2 is still a question at this point for me.
> 
> I am interested in doing something with Perl.
> 
> One idea is to:
> write a perl script to convert maplexer.l into a Parse::Lex script
> and mapparser.y to a Parse::Yapp script. This would allow us to
> generate perl code that could accurately read mapfiles based on the
> mapserver grammar files. - this may be more trouble than it is worth
> as I don't know much about these tools.
> 
> My goal would be to be able to read a mapfile and send it as xml to 
> another client. They could make changes to it and request a map based on 
> the modified mapfile. The modified mapfile would be validated and 
> converted back to a Mapfile or would be dynamically instanciated in 
> Mapscript. I don't think Mapscript supports all the functionality we 
> need to do the later.
> 
> -Steve
> 
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