[mapserver-users] The GetFeatureInfo return a GML without a validation schema.

[Andrea Peri]

Hi,

>If GetFeatureInfo would produce GML with different schema than WFS
GetFeature, how the users are supposed to read it? WMS does not have
request

>“DescribeGetFeatureInfoSchema” and building such for Mapserver does not
feel optimal. So the GetFeatureInfo GML should have a link to a static

>schema file that could be accessed through the web.

Yes this was an option, but it is not the only.
Another option could be an "Inline XML". It is an XML with it xsd embedded.
http://www.herongyang.com/XML/XSD-Statements-Embedded-in-XML-File.html

>How about forgetting GML and use something that does not need separate
schema file, perhaps  GeoJSON?

I guess GeoJSon is no a consolidated standard.
So I guess the GeoJSON generated from geoServer is different from the
GeoJSON of MapServer or of other products.
Our goal is to write routines able to speak with MapServer mainly with
MapServer but also with GeoServer or others WMS systems.
The routins must be able to retrieve attributes and geometry.
We don't want use the WFS because it is too much oriented to a download. It
is not lockable to give one only instance (one only geometry)


2012/8/10 Rahkonen Jukka <Jukka.Rahkonen at mmmtike.fi>

>  Hi,****
>
> ** **
>
> DescribeFeatureType is compulsory part of WSF so it is no wonder that it
> works automatically.****
>
> ** **
>
> I try to think what could be done. DecribeFeatureType must match with WFS
> GetFeature. It you would like to use DFT with WMS GetFeatureInfo then
> GetFeatureInfo could not be separately configurable. It should always use
> the schema defined for WFS.****
>
> I suppose that this is how Geoserver works. I also believe that there are
> Mapserver users who want to get different GML from WFS GetFeature and WMS
> GetFeatureInfo.****
>
> ** **
>
> If GetFeatureInfo would produce GML with different schema than WFS
> GetFeature, how the users are supposed to read it? WMS does not have
> request “DescribeGetFeatureInfoSchema” and building such for Mapserver does
> not feel optimal. So the GetFeatureInfo GML should have a link to a static
> schema file that could be accessed through the web.****
>
> ** **
>
> OGR GML driver seems to be able to create such schema file automatically
> with XSISCHEMA=EXTERNAL option http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_gml.html.
>   Problem is that probably you do not want to send two files for the WMS
> client doing GetFeatureInfo calls (xml + xsd), not even zipped into one
> archive file. So OGR should generate .xsd file, store it into some place on
> the server and write a corresponging URL into the GML part of response so
> that client could read the file through the web. It feels complicated but
> probably it could be done.  XSISCHEMA=INTERNAL would be much more simple
> both on the server and client side but documentation tells that it does not
> work.****
>
> ** **
>
> How about forgetting GML and use something that does not need separate
> schema file, perhaps  GeoJSON?****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> -Jukka-****
>
> ** **
>
> Andrea Peri wrote:****
>
> ** **
>
> Hi Jukka,
>
> That option ask the user to produce itself all the schemas for all the
> layers
>
> I see instead that a getFeature request on the WFS section will produce
> automatically an xsd of the GML it return using the DescribeFeatureType
> request.
>
> I hope to find a solution to have this automatically produce also on the
> GetFeatureInfo.
>
> ****
>
> 2012/8/10 Rahkonen Jukka <Jukka.Rahkonen at mmmtike.fi>****
>
> Hi,****
>
>  ****
>
> Would it work as you hope if the creation option “XSISCHEMAURI” could be
> set as described in the OGR GML driver page
> http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_gml.html? ****
>
>  ****
>
> *“XSISCHEMAURI*: If provided, this URI will be inserted as the schema
> location. Note that the schema file isn't actually accessed by OGR, so it
> is up to the user to ensure it will match the schema of the OGR produced
> GML data file.”****
>
>  ****
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-****
>
>  ****
>
> Andrea Peri wrote:****
>
>  ****
>
> Hi,
>
> doing a GetFeatureInfo of GML type I see the MapServer send this kind of
> response.
>
> <msGMLOutput
>      xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
>      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
>      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
>     <rt_cat.idcatbdfog.rt_layer>
>
> Unfortunately this response don't has a schemaLocation with a xsd for
> validation available.
>
> I try with the DescribeFeatureType, but it return an xsd for a
> featureCollection (for GML from WFS) don't for the msGMLOutput.
>
> Is possible to set the GetFeatureInfo from mapserver to have a GML
> response validable with the xsd from DescribeFeatureType ?
>
> Thx,
>
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