[OpenLayers-Dev] WMSManager closer to beta version

[Lorenzo Becchi]

> Nice work.
Thank you Cameron,

> If you can parse a getCapabilities response, then there is a good 
> chance you are very close to being able to parse a Web Map Context 
> (WMC) document too. 
hopefully
:-)

> A WMC provides an XML list of WMS layers.
> Of note, it hasn't been approved by the OGC yet. 

I know this, thx, and can be a possible enhancement soon.
I'm thinking at Web Catalogue too, but it's not a priority to me now.

>
> And if you go down this path, you might want to look at the Mapbuilder 
> code which has WMC parsing and OWS Context parsing too. OWS Context 
> includes layers from other sources too: GML, GeoRSS, WFS, etc.
I do appreciate the work you all are doing on Mapbuilder. I was dreaming 
to get just the code from your project but, tell me if I'm wrong, you're 
using XPath that is not supported by Safari/KHTML. I still need this 
compliance.
 From another side I need a small simple package inside OL, as 
WMSManager should be, to integrate in another project. That's why I've 
started this adventure.
I'm already in contact with your devs about the SLD Editor, that I would 
like to develop soon (too). With Aime and GeoSolutions guys we've 
reflected over the possibility to use a server component for this (while 
WMSManager use only the proxy.cgi as server component to call 
GetCapabilities ). I'll inform this list about improvements if not OT.

ciao
Lorenzo