[OpenLayers-Dev] XPATH library to support GML parsing

[Paul Spencer]

Isn't this the part that makes mapbuilder not work in Safari?

Paul

On 9-Nov-06, at 10:43 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> Mapbuilder has GML, WMC, SLD parsers which could be ported over
> OpenLayers. In particular, I'm considering porting the GML parser over
> to OpenLayers to provide a GML Layer.
>
> In Mapbuilder we use XPATH for a lot of our parsing.
> At other times, we use XSLT.
> Xpath syntax looks something like:
> selectSingleNode("//ows:BoundingBox/@crs")
>
> The cross browser XPATH and XSLT functionality we use is provided by
> http://sarissa.sf.net . I assume other ajax frameworks like Dojo and
> Atom provide something similar.
>
> While I'm not convinced that XSLT is required by OpenLayers yet, I  
> think
> XPATH would be very useful.
>
> I suggest that OpenLayers considers including all, or part of a  
> library
> which supports XPATH. Sarissa is available under the LGPL, GPL and
> Apache Software Licence.
>
> -- 
> Cameron Shorter
> http://cameron.shorter.net
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