[OpenLayers-Dev] auto-generating OpenLayers javascript

[Tim Schaub]

Hey-

As Bart mentions, WMC is the only spec that comes close to this (but as 
he says, just for WMS layers).  The OWS Context spec is not yet adopted 
as an OGC spec (http://www.ogcnetwork.net/context).  When it is, we can 
write a parser for it.  However, this would still not treat things like 
a Google layer, or a Vector layer with a few hand drawn features, or a 
map with an overview map control.

If you really want to serialize things specific to OpenLayers, then you 
probably won't find a standard.  A while ago, we started work on an 
OpenLayers object notation (OLON).  I put together some stuff that would 
allow objects created from OpenLayers classes to be serialized as OLON - 
and then be deserialized again as instances of the same classes.

You can see an example here:
http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/context/examples/olon.html

This may be overkill for what you want - WMC or OWS Context are 
certainly more "standard".

This also would take a bit to get in to the trunk - so really just a 
heads up.  If you're interested though, it would be good to know that 
there is interest in it.

Tim

Burgholzer,Robert wrote:
> I am interested in developing a parser that would take a block of XML 
> describing a map view (maybe SLD notation?) and turn it into OpenLayers 
> javascript code.  Once I have done this, I would like to turn it into a 
> WordPress plugin, so that maps can be dynamically added to blogs, real, 
> custom maps that is.  The things I think I need to know before starting 
> this are:
> 
>  
> 
>    1. Is there already something out there that does this?
>    2. What format is considered the best standard, SLD, or some other?
>    3. Is this interesting to others as well?
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>  
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>  
> 
> Robert W. Burgholzer
> 
> Surface Water Modeler
> 
> Office of Water Supply and Planning
> 
> Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
> 
> rwburgholzer at deq.virginia.gov <mailto:rwburgholzer at deq.virginia.gov>
> 
> 804-698-4405
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> Open Source Modeling Tools:
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> http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/
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