WFS schemas

[N Zhou]

Hi Bart,

Thank you for the information. I updated my mapserver to 4.4 in order to add
namespace.
But namescape doesn't work for the application schema. We also learned that
right now we  cannot use application-level schema.

Naijun

>From: "Bart van den Eijnden" <bartvde at xs4all.nl>
>To: "N Zhou" <zhou_naijun at hotmail.com>, MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
>Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] WFS schemas
>Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:22:01 +0100
>
>Hi,
>
>the following bugzilla reports might be of information to you:
>
>http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=950
>http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=884
>
>In short, you cannot use your own schema with Mapserver for WFS at the
>moment. You can change the namespace, by using wfs_namespace_prefix, see:
>
>http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc/wfs-server-howto.html
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Best regards,
>Bart
>
>On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:13:17 -0600, N Zhou <zhou_naijun at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'd highly appreciate your help/suggestion on my question of applying a
>>different schemas in WFS.
>>
>>I sent a WFS DescribeFeatureType request to map server and I got a
>>response
>>as:
>>
>><wfs:FeatureCollection xmlns="http://www.ttt.org/myns"
>>xmlns:myns="http://www.ttt.org/myns"
>>xmlns:wfs="http://www.opengis.net/wfs"
>>xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
>>xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>>xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/wfs
>>http://myhost/wfsschema/wfs/1.0.0/WFS-basic.xsd http://www.ttt.org/myns
>>http://myhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/myWFS/data/mywfs.map&SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType&TYPENAME=ngs">
>>   <import namespace="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
>>schemaLocation="http://myhost/wfsschema/gml/2.1/feature.xsd" />
>>   <element name="ngs" type="myns:ngs_Type"
>>substitutionGroup="gml:_Feature"
>>/>
>>- <complexType name="ngs_Type">
>>- <complexContent>
>>- <extension base="gml:AbstractFeatureType">
>>- <sequence>
>>   <element name="MS_GEOMETRY" type="gml:PointPropertyType"
>>nillable="false"
>>/>
>>   <element name="PID" type="string" />
>>   <element name="LATITUDE" type="string" />
>>   <element name="LONGITUDE" type="string" />
>>   </sequence>
>>   </extension>
>>   </complexContent>
>>   </complexType>
>>   </schema>
>>
>>Here the feature type "ngs_type" contains a list of elements. I wonder
>>how I
>>can get a response with features and elements defined by a specific
>>schema
>>(.xsd). I see some wfs schemas under the ows_schemas_location, but I
>>don't
>>know where I can place my own schema.  Do I need to change the
>>xmlns="http://www.ttt.org/myns" to another namespace, and how?
>>Information
>>about how schemas in WFS are imported and refered are also appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks a lot!
>>
>>Yours,
>>
>>N. Zhou
>>
>
>
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