AW: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] wfs server and encoding

[Arnd Wippermann]

Hello Eric,

That's wrong. Loading WFS-layers from MapServer with OpenLayers works with
FF and IE.

(OpenLayers 2.5, MapServer 4.10)

http://gis.ibbeck.de/ginfo/apps/OLExamples/SphericalMercator/OL_900913_frame
s.html

This is the head part of the WFS-response get with Firebug:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<wfs:FeatureCollection
   xmlns:ms="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver"
   xmlns:wfs="http://www.opengis.net/wfs"
   xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
   xmlns:ogc="http://www.opengis.net/ogc"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/wfs
http://schemas.opengis.net/wfs/1.0.0/WFS-basic.xsd
                       http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver
http://gis.ibbeck.de/ginfo/apps/OLExamples
/SphericalMercator/!SphericalMercator.asp&amp;Service=WFS?SERVICE=WFS&amp;VE
RSION=1.0.0&amp;REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType
&amp;TYPENAME=POLYGONS&amp;OUTPUTFORMAT=XMLSCHEMA">
      <gml:boundedBy>
      	<gml:Box srsName="EPSG:900913">
...

Mit freundlichen Grüssen

Arnd Wippermann
http://gis.ibbeck.de/ginfo/




-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] Im
Auftrag von Eric Lemoine
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2007 20:22
An: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Betreff: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] wfs server and encoding

On 10/24/07, Milo van der Linden <mlinden at zeelandnet.nl> wrote:
> I ran in to exactly the same problem, getting the data in UTF-8 was an 
> absolute " must"  in order to get the labels to show up right in a 
> Flash GIS client.

This a must-have for me too as it seems that there's no way to read an
ISO-8859-1 encoded XML file using Internet Explorer's
ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") javascript object. More concretely,
OpenLayers WFS cannot read ISO-8859-1 encoded GML documents served by
MapServer WFS!

--
Eric