This would be a handy addition. It would be helpful, to add to the RFC, sample XML output.
________________________________ From: gdal-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Mateusz Loskot Sent: Tue 19-Nov-13 12:03 To: Howard Butler Cc: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org dev Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] RFC 44: JSON/XML output for ogrinfo/gdalinfo On 19 November 2013 17:00, Howard Butler <how...@hobu.co> wrote: > On Nov 19, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Mateusz Loskot <mate...@loskot.net> wrote: >> On 19 November 2013 16:42, Howard Butler <how...@hobu.co> wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> Dan Little and myself would like to put forward an RFC proposing -xml and >>> -json output support for both ogrinfo and gdalinfo. No changes are proposed >>> to the current text format (which would continue to be the default output >>> format), but having JSON and XML available would greatly ease the >>> integration of gdalinfo and ogrinfo into existing processing workflows >>> without requiring that someone jump into scripting land. Though it might >>> have been overkill to have an RFC, I thought it would be useful to have >>> something to collaborate on if others have ideas about these particular >>> features. >>> >>> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc44_gdalinfoxml >>> >>> We look forward to your feedback, >> >> "You don't parse the output of gdalinfo --format, do you?" :P >> >> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2013-January/035117.html > > I don't, but I fully expect that are there are folks who have, simply due to > not having a better, > more convenient way to do things. JSON and XML output puts people on the > right path at least... Hobu, sure thing. That was a bit of joke, and, on reflection I think a specified format is actually useful idea. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net <http://mateusz.loskot.net/> _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
