>>> Cool. Let's try to come up with perhaps a specific roadmap / pitch to >>> put on the GeoServer site, so we can point people at a plan, that they can >>> help accelerate with funding. I'll try to put some time in to this next >>> week, perhaps we can try to pass it around on a wiki site. I think Justin >>> took a first crack at it, turning the stuff Gabriel mentioned in to a >>> document. >> >> Rob may be understating things a bit; I found a couple of Australian >> groups considering deegree simply based on their community schema support; >> and not entertaining the option of GeoServer. > > Hum, is it really because of the ability to support complex features > natively, or just about the support of XSLT transformations? > If GeoServer had an XSLT based output format, would that solve the > problem? >
XSLT is not a solution in the long term - its slow, difficult to write and will be very difficult to maintain when we have a few thousand feature types in common use (eg INSPIRE). Also, transforming queries using XSLT requires a lot of logic, and the ability to execute any feature-relationship queries seems completely infeasible. And of course, standard SLD's can be defined against standard feature types, (even if implemented as named WMS styles). So you would need three complicated configurations for every feature type if you are unable to model it properly internally. The other bit of work, the ability to plug in functions, might allow you to get away with this, but that would mean re-expressing the standards in terms of supported functions, not feature models. I dont see this happening in the near future. The feedback I have from some of the people using Deegree in the GeoSciML community is that would still welcome a configurable native capability. I haven't really thought to much about the implications for WFS-T to be honest. Rob A ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
