Jody: We actually use the .shp.xml to hold creation meta data for ESRI created shape files. See:
http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.dtd I don't actually access the data with GT, but I thought I would point out that they are in the wild . . AP -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jody Garnett Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:01 PM To: Geotools-devel Subject: Re: [Geotools-devel] Shapefile broken (depended on catalog TypeEntryclass) Chris Holmes wrote: > Quoting Jody Garnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Sad but true, Jesse since you are the defacto modulemaintainer can I >> have permission to go in and hack the TypeEntry information out of >> there? As I recall this made use of blahblah.shp.xml to try and get >> bounds information - since no shp.xml files were ever seen in the >> wild I don't think anyone will know/care. >> > Speaking of Shapefile, I have a small improvement I'd like to do, but > it looks like we're maintaining two versions of shapefile? indexed on > non-indexed? So since I have to do this on 2.1.x as well, does that > mean I need to commit it four times? > Thanks Chris I had not thought of that ... the situtation is not that bad, one implementation is a subclass of the other or something. > Can we merge the two? I think they were always meant to be, when > indexed reached maturity. It's just an option in the datastore > factory, you can click if you want it indexed or not. > > Also, can we nominate Jesse to upgrade from defacto to official module > maintainer? I'm +1 > I would second that - Jesse may protest :-) +1 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
