WFS: why not use the default namespace?

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

Hi,

I agree w/ Bart here.  I would prefer to use a default namespace (i.e. xmlns=...), as opposed to explicitly specifying this in the output, for elements not carried by gml: or wfs:.  The default namespace would be either what the user defines in wfs_namespace_uri, or, if not specified, would default to "http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver".

Having said this, I'm not sure how much of this is in MapServer code vs. the OGR GML code.

..Tom



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Subject:	[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] WFS: why not use the default namespace?

Hi list,

why doesn't Mapserver WFS use the default namespace, i.e.:

xmlns="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver"

so that it does not have to put ms: in front of all the elements?

I am asking this since we have a problem converting Mapserver GML into 
ESRI Shapefile using ogr2ogr. The attribute names will come out as 
ms_XXXX which confuses users who are also familiar with the native data.

Hope to hear some thoughts on this.

Best regards,
Bart

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Bart van den Eijnden
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