Rob Atkinson ha scritto:
> The original type is totally meaningless _unless_ its known to the
> client, so being able to meet a known schema is a useful role of XSLT.

Sorry, but given that the client cannot do any meaningful filter
because the actual schema is not the one in which the
features are returned, I fail to see the use of XSLT for schema
mapping unless the client uses a plain jane G

>  You are right there is no value using XSLT over an introspected
> private feature type, cos if you know that you have a private
> agreement and you can hard-code anything you like.

XSLT that replaces the returned GML is uselss for any kind of generic
client, no matter if the original feature type is introspected or
community.

> all this is kinda academic unless the ability to use XSLT is actually
> being contemplated. It would be cool, but just cant see it being
> terribly useful as a generic XSLT format - you want to name all the
> specific one's and override any existing ones if you choose to, then
> its very very useful whenever we have a glitch in a format - a
> deployer can always use an XSLT while we get the glitch fixed.

Oh, so all of this would just be a way to work around issues
in the encoder? This is such a small corner case that I won't
waste my time on such an implementation.

An XSLT output format can be much more powerful than this for
people that are coding up custom clients, and there are many
of those today. And there are also people that asked about it
because of the very practical reasons they are proficient
with XSLT and thus they can get whatever they need (e.g., an
HTML output, a pure text file, a custom json representation)
-> an output format that they are looking for, but that
has not been coded yet.

Cheers
Andrea

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