WFS contact info

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have created a WFS to act as a service on MapServer. In the 
> GetCapabilities response, I would like to see the contact 
> information as I do for a WMS. I have tried a 
> "wfs_contactperson" and an "ows_contactperson" in the map's 
> metadata but it doesn't appear in the response. In the WFS 
> GetCapabilities response schema (pg 87 of 
> "04-094_Web_Feature_Service_Implementation_Specification_V1.pd
> f", this information appeared to be passed in an 
> IndividualName element, so I tried a "wfs_" and 
> "ows_individualname" metadata tag also. No luck there either.
> 
> Can anyone tell me if the WFS GetCapabilities response from 
> MapServer carries contact information similar to the WMS 
> GetCapabilities response at all? There is no match to WFS and 
> contact in the forum. If there is support for this in WFS, 
> can someone point me to where I might learn to do it?

Good question.  MapServer supports OGC:WFS 1.0.0.  OGC:WFS 1.0.0 does
not support contact information.  OGC:WFS 1.1.0 supports contact
information, but MapServer doesn't support OGC:WFS 1.1.0.

..Tom