[OpenLayers-Dev] WMSManager beta version

[Lorenzo Becchi]

> If you want to be able to update your catalog, you should also implement transactionnal operators.
> All this to say it could be the ideal solution but this is a big game.
>
>   
Hi Robert,
I absolutely don't want to re-implement a complete client for CAT or 
CSW2. I would be scared about it.
I'm just trying to do a simple search field to query a/some Catalog/s 
and retrieve a list of WMS/OWS services with title, description, 
getCapabilities url, and a link to the complete metadata description.
In this way it would be easy to add a server to WMSManager (probably 
soon OWSManager) having the Metadata available.
You put a search string: "forest occurrence"
You maybe have a checkbox to block the research to your map extent.
Submit the query and play with the parsed response.

is this feasible from a Catalog point of view?

> In my mind, for the particular needs of retrieving some WMS servers URLS and their capabilites, we could rely on something much simpler.
> The example already given here : http://www.microimages.com/wmscatalog/request.cgi? sends XML output. I was wondering if this output was somewhere standardized ?
>   
http://www.microimages.com/wmscatalog/request.cgi
has no Metadata and it's close to be useless, IMO. I'm scared about that 
list.
Who wants to try all those servers to see what they have inside?
What happens if the list goes over a thousand records?
- long time to download it
- hypnosis after 10 lines reeding
- :-)
maybe I'm kidding but Metadata are very important to me.

ciao
Lorenzo