[postgis-users] MULTIPOINT WKT - parentheses or no parentheses?

[Mike Leahy]

Hello list,

Hello all - does anyone know about whether the multipoint WKT format should 
have points separated with parentheses (e.g., "MULTIPOINT((1 2),(3 4))"), or 
should it not (e.g., "MULTIPOINT(1 2,3 4)")? PostGIS returns the latter (no 
parentheses), but if you look at the OGC doc linked from here here: 
http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sfa, the example for MULTIPOINT on 
page 61 has parentheses - same thing on Wikipedia: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_text - I'm not sure what the correct 
OGC reference for WKB is though.

I'm asking because the WKT parser in OpenLayers currently expects parentheses 
when its parser reads a multipoint, which is easy enough to work around. But 
should PostGIS be including parentheses if it is the accepted format (or is 
there a way to do this already?), or should we expect that any application 
that parses WKT must be able to pars both formats (e.g., like PostGIS does)?

Regards,
Mike
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