Ah -- thanks for clarifying. GMLAS with some regexp worked to parse the GPX
metadata block. Would be interested in seeing metadata block implemented in
the GPX driver. I imagine it's on some feature request/TODO.

Thanks,
Gerard


On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 4:01 PM Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com>
wrote:

> On mardi 12 novembre 2019 13:50:17 CET Gerard wrote:
> > Thanks! I don't think I knew that I could preface the source with
> DRIVER:.
> > Perhaps a suggestion for the documentation:
> >
> > <[DRIVER:]datasource_name>
>
> That's not supported by all drivers. Actually most drivers don't need (and
> won't support) that syntax. But there ae circumstances where things must
> be
> disambiguated. For examples files opened by the more recent GMLAS driver
> are
> generally opened by the venerable GML driver, hence the GMLAS: prefix
>
> Drivers that support that syntax have it documened in their respective
> documentation pages.
>
> Even
>
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