[postgis-devel] AsGML output not valid?

[Christopher Schmidt]

foss=> select AsGML('POLYGON((1 2, 4 5, 3 6, 1 2))'::geometry);
                    asgml
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 <gml:Polygon>
   <gml:OuterBoundaryIs>1,2 4,5 3,6 1,2</gml:OuterBoundaryIs>
 </gml:Polygon>

It appears that this behavior is old:

http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-devel/2004-September/000491.html

And that there was a patch sent to the devel list 5 months ago:

http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-devel/2007-March/002507.html

But I can't tell if anything ever happened after that.

I can't find a bug tracker for PostGIS (the only URL I found is
http://postgis.refractions.net/bugs/ , which I can't login to),  so I
don't know if there is a status on this that I should be aware of.

Is this planned to be fixed, or do I need to start thinking about
supporting 'PostGIS GML' in OpenLayers to account for this incorrect
behavior?

Note that without the patch mentioned above, GML is different from all
the other sources I can find.  

MsSqlSpatial: http://openlayers.org/pipermail/dev/2007-August/001281.html

OGR:
<gml:Polygon>
  <gml:outerBoundaryIs>
    <gml:LinearRing>
      <gml:coordinates>0,0,0 1,1,0 2,2,0 0,0,0</gml:coordinates>
    </gml:LinearRing>
  </gml:outerBoundaryIs>
</gml:Polygon>


OpenLayers:
<gml:Polygon> 
  <gml:outerBoundaryIs> 
    <gml:LinearRing> 
<gml:coordinates decimal="." cs=", " ts=" "> -34.453125, -17.9296875 -2.109375,
27.0703125 20.390625, -17.2265625 -34.453125, -17.9296875</gml:coordinates> 
</gml:LinearRing> 
</gml:outerBoundaryIs>
</gml:Polygon>


FeatureServer:
  <gml:Polygon>
    <gml:outerBoundaryIs><gml:LinearRing>
    <gml:coordinates>-131.484375,-5.9765625 -112.5,-58.0078125
-32.34375,-50.2734375 -114.609375,52.3828125 -167.34375,-35.5078125
-146.953125,-57.3046875 -139.921875,-34.1015625
-131.484375,-5.9765625</gml:coordinates>
    </gml:LinearRing></gml:outerBoundaryIs>
  </gml:Polygon>

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta