[postgis-users] WKT parsers

[Paul Ramsey]

TECHER David wrote:
> Your idea from asJSON(), why not?

The only reason not is that there doesn't seem to be a rock-hard 
consensus on the format of GeoJSON yet.

P

> 
> An interesting possibility could be
> 
> http://www.aurore.net/projects/php-json/
> 
> for PHP developpers for example
> 
> Paul Ramsey a écrit :
>> Mark,
>>
>> If you have the opportunity, avoid parsing WKT and either (a) use an 
>> internal postgis transform like AsSVG, AsGML, AsKML or (b) pull 
>> text-based binary, and parse the WKB, which is a much more predictable 
>> structure (using encode(asbinary(geom),'hex') ).
>>
>> I guess my answer could be phrased as a question: what are you going 
>> to do with the WKT once you parse it? Perhaps PostGIS needs another 
>> representation function (I'm sure we'll have an AsJSON soon enough...)
>>
>> p
>>
>> Mark Fredrickson wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Can anyone point me to any WKT parsers? I'd prefer JavaScript and PHP
>>> implementations, but I'm not that picky. Hopefully, they'd have some
>>> regexs I could steal, er, borrow. :-)
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>> -Mark
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