Export a Web Map Context document?

[Julien-Samuel Lacroix]

Hello,

I'm not aware of any tool that will convert one to the other automatically.

Currently, as you guessed, the saveMapContext() function only saves the
WMS layers in the WMC. This is because it is designed to be used on the
client side.

So you may either write the WMC file by hand from the Capabilities or
build a WMS-client mapfile and save the WMC file from it.

Thanks
Julien



Matthew Perry wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>  I have mapserver set up as a WMS server.... Is there
> a way to output a WMC (Web Map Context) document
> containing all of the layers in my mapfile at the
> default extent? So far I have tried 2 things with
> disappointing results:
>
> 1) PHP/Mapcript's $map->saveMapContext() method ...
> this only outputs layers that mapserver accesses as a
> WMS client (ie only *cascaded* WMS layers are shown).
>
> 2) adding "wms_getcontext_enabled" "1" to the
> map->web->metadata allows me to do a
> request=GetContext but I get the same result as (1).
>
> So for all you OGC gurus out there, Is there any way
> to convert a WMS-server-enabled mapfile OR a
> "Capabilities" XML to a WMC?? I guess the ideal
> solution would be to generate a WMC document based on
> the capabilties document. I suppose I could do it by
> hand but I'm just wondering if there is an easier way?
>
>
> Thanks alot,
>
> Matt Perry
> Humboldt State University
>

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