Re: [GeoNetwork-devel] intermap: group layers fixes and mods for UMN MapServer

[Jeroen T. <Jer...@fa...>]

Hi Simon,
Thanks a lot for the feedback! Definitely not taken as complaints and  
very helpful. Did you make the changes you suggest in your local  
version? If so, would you be able to provide us with the updated  
(pieces or whole) XSL?
Thanks again, ciao,
Jeroen

On Feb 21, 2007, at 6:40 AM, Simon Pigot wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> We've been using intermap with UMN MapServer and Deegree2 and run  
> into a
> few fixable problems:
>
> 1. Expansion of group layers: Intermap scans the getCapabilities  
> xml and
> adds all layer children to the list of layers in im_get-services.xsl -
> unfortunately this leaves group layers (eg. such as those that are a
> combination of generalized layers for scale thresholding)  
> unselectable.
> I reckon this is the opposite of what should happen but anyways it can
> be fixed by straightforward mods to the xsl.
>
> 2. As a consequence of 1, the xsl to decide whether a layer is  
> queryable
> in im_get-layers.xsl doesn't work because it uses:
>
> descendant::Layer[Name=$name]/ancestor-or-self::Layer/@queryable[1]  
> = '1')
>
> it needs an additional test condition which replaces ancestor-or- 
> self to
> test whether one of the layers that belongs to the group is queryable
> (ie. descendant).
>
> 3. (Enhancement) Identify button through im_identify.xsl doesn't  
> support
> UMN MapServer's strange GML output msGMLOutput - you could get around
> this by using HTML templates in the UMN MapServer thereby allowing
> intermap to use INFO_FORMAT=text/html but I like the GML solution in
> im_identify.xsl - I've done this and can submit the modified version
> back if anybody wants it.
>
> Cheers and thanks again for this software - I'm definitely not
> complaining just trying to help!
>
> Simon
>
>
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