[mapserver-users] WFS layer - XML/JSON safe chars

thomas bonfort thomas.bonfort at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 07:16:17 PDT 2016


To be clearer, fields that are output are added via *_include_items, and
those that need to *not* be encoded should be added to *_xml_items.

e.g
"gml_include_items" "attr1,attr2"
"gml_xml_items" "attr1"

--
thomas

On 15 April 2016 at 16:10, thomas bonfort <thomas.bonfort at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ian,
> data coming from the datasource should be encoded by mapserver, *unless*
> their field has been added to the layer via the "gml_xml_items" metadata
> entry (instead of the usual "gml_include_items")
>
> --
> thomas
>
> On 15 April 2016 at 15:54, Ian Walberg <ian.walberg at airborne.aero> wrote:
>
>> Jukka,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am not sure I understand the test you did.
>>
>>
>>
>> The data we are referring to is from the database field for the
>> individual features name.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Rahkonen Jukka (MML) [mailto:jukka.rahkonen at maanmittauslaitos.fi]
>>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, April 14, 2016 10:19 PM
>>
>> *To:* Ian Walberg <ian.walberg at airborne.aero>; MapserverList OSGEO <
>> mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: WFS layer - XML/JSON safe chars
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the clarification.
>>
>> I made a simple test by adding an abstract into layer metadata. This
>> shows “test ä” as an abstract
>>
>> "wfs_abstract" "test ä”
>>
>>
>>
>> This one shows an empty abstract
>>
>> "wfs_abstract" "test ä &"
>>
>>
>>
>> So it looks like Mapserver doesn’t know to convert “&” into “&” for
>> XML.
>>
>>
>>
>> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>>
>>
>>
>> Ian Walberg wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Jukka,
>>
>>
>>
>> Our question was for the data/text read from the database and then
>> published as XML by the WFS service.
>>
>>
>>
>> So a pub with the name ‘Dog & bone’ created illegal xml as the & is not
>> converted to &
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Rahkonen Jukka (MML) [mailto:jukka.rahkonen at maanmittauslaitos.fi
>> <jukka.rahkonen at maanmittauslaitos.fi>]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, April 14, 2016 3:10 PM
>> *To:* Ian Walberg <ian.walberg at airborne.aero>; MapserverList OSGEO <
>> mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: WFS layer - XML/JSON safe chars
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> You can’t have & in feature type names or attribute names in WFS because
>> they are defined in the XML schema to be “QName”. The prefix and LocalPart
>> are of type NCName https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QName and from
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1631396/what-is-an-xsncname-type-and-when-should-it-be-used
>>
>>
>>
>> The practical restrictions of NCName are that it cannot contain several
>> symbol characters like :, @, $, %, &, /, +, ,, ;, whitespace characters
>> or different parenthesis. Furthermore an NCName cannot begin with a number,
>> dot or minus character although they can appear later in an NCName.
>>
>>
>>
>> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>>
>>
>>
>> *Lähettäjä:* mapserver-users [
>> mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> <mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] *Puolesta *Ian Walberg
>> *Lähetetty:* 14. huhtikuuta 2016 19:23
>> *Vastaanottaja:* MapserverList OSGEO
>> *Aihe:* [mapserver-users] WFS layer - XML/JSON safe chars
>>
>>
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Can mapserver produce XML or JSON safe characters for WFS served data or
>> do we need to ensure the source data has the escaped values.
>>
>>
>>
>> We got tripped up today as there were some ‘&’ in our names which we had
>> not considered.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> Ian
>>
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