WFS problem with Filter accepting by MapServer

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

There is a bug on it 
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2034. It will be fixed 
for the upcoming version (5.0)

Later,

Diatchkov Vitali wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> The MapServer 4.8.* that we use as a WFS server has some problems with
> GeoTools WFSDataStore at the client side. The Filter being produced by
> GeoTool library looks like:
> 
> ========================
> <Filter><BBOX><PropertyName>msGeometry</PropertyName><Box><coordinates
> decimal="." cs="," ts=" ">3669974.159827543,7034913.012544877
> 3670967.818494744,7035739.51367928</coordinates></Box></BBOX></Filter>
> ========================
> 
> and I suppose it conforms to GML2. But MapServer does not handle attributes
> in<coordinates> tag: decimal, cs, ts. If these attributes are encoded in the
> filter XML then MapServer returns an exception that Filter is invalid or not
> supported.
> 
> The following filter work fine:
> ========================
> <Filter><BBOX><PropertyName>msGeometry</PropertyName><Box><coordinates>
> 3669974.159827543,7034913.012544877
> 3670967.818494744,7035739.51367928</coordinates></Box></BBOX></Filter>
> ========================
> 
> Is it possible to fix the issue? Sure, it is a problem of MapServer not of
> GeoTools library because these attributes are part of spec. And the
> combination GeoTools + MapServer is quite widespread.
> 
> 
> We would like to see this problem to be fixed, don't know what is the
> situation in the following versions of MapServer..
> 
> 
> Regards ,
> Vitali Diatchkov.
> 


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