[OpenLayers-Users] Mapserver WFS layer

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

AFAIK only point features are supported right now, but there is ongoing 
development in the vector branch to support the type of use case you have.

Best regards,
Bart

Neil Best schreef:
> I am in the process of testing any WFS client I can get my hands on 
> against my Mapserver WFS service.  I have some multipolygon layers that 
> I am serving from shapefiles and I can render them correctly using 
> either Mapserver or uDig as the client, although uDig chokes whenever 
> the XML includes attributes.  When I follow the WFS examples for OL that 
> I have been able to find nothing happens.  I am using the Metacarta WMS 
> as a base layer but that's all that appears.  The server logs indicate 
> that appropriate GetFeature requests are being made for the map tiles. 
> When I cut and paste these requests directly into my browser I get what 
> appears to be a well-formed XML response, so where does it go when the 
> map object asks for it?  Is it possible that only WFS point features are 
> supported at this time?  It is unclear to me what would determine the 
> style of these polygons even if they were supported.   Hopefully this is 
> enough information for someone to tell me if what I am trying is even 
> possible.  Thanks for your time, everyone.
>
> Neil
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