Dear GeoServer, I have been directed to this mailing list as a place to propose an improvement. I had asked this question originally on GIS StackExchange thinking it was a geonetwork problem but a reply has pointed me to it being a GeoServer issue.
My question is well documented in this Q&A thread (https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/329684/how-to-include-the-metadata-in-a-shapefile-download-from-geonetwork) so please have a quick look at it to understand the issue. In summary I would like GeoServer to include the XML (metadata) file along with the rest of the files that are zipped up for a shapefile. I would typically document my dataset using ArcCatalog and that creates the additional XML file holding all the metadata. As I say in my question on GIS SE we get into a scenario of distributing datasets without any metadata which is not good! Ian's reply seems to suggest a tweak in the source code could resolve this, but I'm neither a heavy user of github nor a web developer so I'm hoping this could be something that is added by someone way more competent than I! One thing I can think of is the xml file is not a mandatory part of a shapefile so the tweak to the source code would need to include it if it existed otherwise carry on zipping it up without failing. Thank you, Duncan ------------------------------------ Duncan Hornby GIS Developer GeoData University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 2719 www.geodata.soton.ac.uk<http://www.geodata.soton.ac.uk/> ------------------------------------ ORCID 0000-0001-6295-1360<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6295-1360>
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