Thank you so much for clarifying that one (…so quickly)!
I was beginning to think I was just stupid ☺

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrea 
Aime
Sent: 14 October 2015 11:47
To: Smart, Gary Export License Required - US UTAS
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Subject: [External] Re: [Geoserver-users] Publishing KML via Geoserver

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Smart, Gary Export License Required - US UTAS 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I have KML files which I would like to serve out via Geoserver.  Perhaps I am 
missing something, but I don’t see how to create a layer from a KML file – 
there only seems to be options to create layers from Shapefiles.  All 
references to KML I have found on the web seem to relate to exporting KML, not 
importing it.
Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

There is no such a thing as publishing a KML as is, that's why you cannot find 
it.
The closest thing we have is importing the KML into a target data store 
(postgis, shapefile) from where we can publish using the importer extension.
However, that will make it lose its styles.

Adding the ability to publish from KML directly, using its native styling, 
would indeed be nice. I've just added a page describing
what to do in case of feature requests, you can have a look at it:
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer

This one would be one of the complex ones, proposals and all, since we'd need 
to start carrying around features with their own "native" style, something
we don't have in the programming interface right now (SLD is all about 
separating data from styling, KML is the polar opposite).

Cheers
Andrea

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