Excellent, Even - thanks so much, I have this working now. I've crafted a PR for the example.
Mateusz: thank you for the source code overview, I will be using that too. Best, Mike On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 10:18 PM Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> wrote: > Michael, > > yes you can get the VRT XML text with: > > poVRTDS->GetMetadata("xml:VRT")[0] > > If you can submit a pull request documenting that, that would be welcome > > Even > Le 03/03/2022 à 11:14, Michael Sumner a écrit : > > Hello, reading the raster VRT tutorial > > https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/vrt.html#creation-of-vrt-datasets > > with this code: > > // > int nBand; > GDALDriver *poDriver = (GDALDriver *) GDALGetDriverByName( "VRT" ); > GDALDataset *poSrcDS, *poVRTDS; > poSrcDS = (GDALDataset *) GDALOpenShared( pszSourceFilename, GA_ReadOnly ); > poVRTDS = poDriver->CreateCopy( "", poSrcDS, FALSE, NULL, NULL, NULL ); > // > > Is there a way to obtained the VRT XML text representing poVRTDS without > writing to an actual file? > > Sorry if this is obvious, haven't been able to find an example that does > what I want. I've seen examples using GetMetadataItem from a band for parts > of the XML, but can't see how to get the entire thing. > > Thanks for your help. > > Best, Mike > > > -- > Michael Sumner > Software and Database Engineer > Australian Antarctic Division > Hobart, Australia > e-mail: mdsum...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing > listgdal-dev@lists.osgeo.orghttps://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > > -- http://www.spatialys.com > My software is free, but my time generally not. > > -- Michael Sumner Software and Database Engineer Australian Antarctic Division Hobart, Australia e-mail: mdsum...@gmail.com
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