[Qgis-user] KML CDATA to attributes
Jorge Tornero - Listas
jtorlistas at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 23:35:08 PDT 2014
Good morning everybody,
I'm importing KML files with points which contains valuable information
within ![[CDATA] fields. Is there any simple way to parse/extract
information from CDATA to attributes when importing the KML into QGIS?
For instance, each of the points inside the KML is:
<Placemark>
<description><![CDATA[<b>Date: </b>6/4/2014 21:36:57<br
/><b>Latitude </b>N36º31'56"<br /><b>Longitude </b>W6º16'55"<br
/><b>Speed: </b>0 Knots<br /><b>Bearing: </b>270.2º<br />]]></description>
<styleUrl>#iconStyle0</styleUrl>
<Point>
<coordinates>-6.28206,36.53234</coordinates>
</Point>
</Placemark>
And what would be desirable is to get a vector layer with the attributes:
Date
Latitude
Longitude
Speed
Bearing
I guess it is pretty difficult to do, mostly because CDATA can carry
anything inside, but maybe someone of you has faced this before.
All the best
Jorge Tornero
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