[OpenLayers-Users] parsing a GML file into different layers

[Eric Lemoine]

On Friday, June 25, 2010, Alex Brandsen <alex.brandsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm building a map of a medieval wallpainting, and the graffiti inscribed in this wall, which can be found on www.thomasav.com/DurhamGraffiti/ (still quite buggy though!).
> I was wondering if there is a way for OpenLayers to dynamically turn features from a single GML file into seperate layers, by providing an array of feature id's. I've been looking through the documentation and been googling around, but I can't seem to find anything useful. Perhaps "OpenLayers. Filter. FeatureId" could do something like this, but the documentation on this is quite sparse..
>
> Ofcourse, I could just write a php script that would pre-parse the gml into seperate, temporary gml files, but I think using OpenLayers itself would be preferable.
>
> If anyone has any ideas, I would be very grateful!


Hi

The protocol or format that you use will give you an array of
features. You are then free to dispatch the features to separate
vector layers, for example based on their ids.

I hope it helps,


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