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

[Alex Brandsen]

Hi Eric,

thanks for your reply. I probably need to use OpenLayers. Format.GML.read()
, but how do I then split the array it returns into different layers?

Thanks,

Alex.

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Eric Lemoine
<eric.lemoine at camptocamp.com>wrote:

> 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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