[mapserver-users] RE: MapServer 5 to 6 migration

[Tim Heuer]

Hi again,

Regarding this issue of transforming map files from version to version, it would be great if we could resolve this sooner rather than later. My boss, Robert Gibb and I have had a brief chat about how this could be done, by who and when.

The idea is to put the current map file data into XML. Since it is a format based on indents and key/value pairs, it should be a simple transformation. Then the hard part would be to put together an XSLT transformation to the new format (maybe some further logic is needed, but generally XML is well understood and easy to manipulate) and then convert it back to the indented (new) map file format.

With the help of Andrew Cowie (my colleague here at Landcare) and people who are going to be at FOSS4G in a week's time, we can hopefully get together at the code sprint on the 17th of September and at least start, if not finish, writing the code for this or at least make a plan to make it happen. The different parts of the MapServer configuration could be split among the most familiar with MapServer who are keen.

So, please, if you are going to be at FOSS4G this year, it would be great if you could help with this if you are interested and want to make life easier for a lot of people. In later versions of MapServer, there might be a benefit too in doing this, so maybe we could set up a transformation framework for files in that format if XML/XSLT is not enough for that. Ideas welcome.

XML/XSLT specialists, it would be great to meet up on one of the days there and discuss further details of this (mini-) project.

The idea is to make this open source as the whole stack of software at FOSS4G is.

Kind regards,
Tim-Hinnerk Heuer

Landcare Research, Palmerston North


-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tim Heuer
Sent: Friday, 2 September 2011 1:11 p.m.
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapserver-users] MapServer 5 to 6 migration

Hi,

We are currently using MapServer 5 for all our WMS and would like to upgrade to MapServer 6. We have a lot of map files for version 5 and need to upgrade those. Since the configuration files have changed a lot from version 5 to 6, this will mean a lot of work for our MapServer specialist, I was hoping that someone has already written a script to automate this process.

If there is one of you, who has done this, please let me know and we can get in contact.

This would be a great help and very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Tim

Tim-Hinnerk Heuer

Landcare Research, Palmerston North

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