[OpenLayers-Dev] [OpenLayers-Users] WMS GetCapabilities parser

[bartvde at osgis.nl]

Hi Andreas,

that makes sense, and was exactly what I was thinking as well this
morning. Remove the versioned parser and have an unversioned parser. I'll
make some changes today in the sandbox to reflect this.

Best regards,
Bart

> bartvde at osgis.nl wrote:
>> if Mapserver is using the version attribute for the XMLSchema version,
>> that's a mistake, see:
>>
>> http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/wfs-dev/2008-December/000523.html
>>
>
> That's interesting. Interesting because this does not seem to be part of
> the WFS spec, and because it is different than with other OGC services.
> And if it is true, we will definitely put no further effort into version
> detection and get rid of Format.WFSDescribeFeatureType.v1_0 in favor of
> having just one unversioned parser.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> Regards,
> Andreas.
>
>>> Andreas Hocevar wrote:
>>>
>>>> bartvde at osgis.nl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> With 4) I don't really agree, since 0.1 is a very arbitrary used
>>>>> version
>>>>> by Mapserver. Since it is the version of the application schema, it
>>>>> should
>>>>> not be used at all IMHO. I think the person calling the parser is
>>>>> responsible for putting the version in the constructor, since he also
>>>>> knew
>>>>> the version when doing the DescribeFeatureType request (version is a
>>>>> URL
>>>>> parameter there). I've used this approach in the test cases. What do
>>>>> you
>>>>> think?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Good point. You are right that this 0.1 version is arbitrary, because
>>>> XML Schema is currently at version 1.1 or something. For now, I really
>>>> think you are right that parsing the version attribute is an
>>>> inappropriate way to determine what we have to parse here. So yes,
>>>> omitting the version detection seems ok for now. If we find WFS
>>>> implementations out there that return a completely different schema,
>>>> we
>>>> will have to cope with this in a different way.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Wait. The "0.1" that Mapserver returns for the version is indeed the
>>> version of the XML Schema. So in fact we should have a
>>> Format.Schema.v0_1 and Format.Schema.v1_0 parser and mix this in for
>>> the
>>> WFSDescribeFeatureType parser.
>>>
>>> At least that is how it should be done. For now, your proposal does
>>> definitely make sense, at least until we find some other use case where
>>> we need to parse XML Schema. This can easily be refactored later
>>> without
>>> changing the API.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Andreas.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andreas Hocevar
>>> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
>>> Expert service straight from the developers.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Andreas Hocevar
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
> Expert service straight from the developers.
>
>