Hi Justin,
thanks for clarification. To better specify my situation, I have a
collection of features (all Polygon, possibly with holes). I was only
specifying the output as MultiPolygon as I wanted a single Geometry
element for my output. I am travelling now and cannot explore the options
you drafted, I will test and respond next week. Thanks you very much
again,
Martin

> Hi Martin,
>
> Just so I understand. You are saying that you have a feature collection
> made up of multi polygons, with some attributes. And those attributes
> may be different from feature to feature? I guess you have a couple of
> options.
>
> The first would be if the set of attributes is well known and a closed
> set, you can just declare a feature type in XML schema with all the
> attributes, marking them as optional. Example:
>
> <xsd:complexType name="myType">
>     <xsd:complexContent>
>        <xsd:extension base="gml:AbstractFeatureType">
>          <xsd:sequence>
>            <xsd:element name="geometry"
> type="gml:multiPolygonPropertyType"/>
>            <xsd:element name="e1" type=".." minoccurs="0">
>            <xsd:element name="e2" type=".." minoccurs="0"/>
>            ...
>          </xsd:sequence>
>        </xsd:extension>
>      </xsd:complexContent>
> </xsd:complexType>
>
> The second would be to declare a feature with some dynamic content,
> using the xs:any construct. I don't know off hand exactly what this will
> look like.
>
> The third would be to just hope that the parser can parse the attributes
> dynamically. The geotools GML parser will do this in the case where the
> GML document being parsed does not properly specify its schema. I
> believe the OGR gml parser does this as well.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> -Justin
>
>
> Martin Tomko wrote:
>> Hi Justin, all
>> thanks for that, my mistake I did not notice that. I will give it a try,
>> although in the meantime I solved the issue using some local
>> workarounds.
>> Now I have a different problem - I am acquiring a FeatureCollection as a
>> result of some processing, where features included have some attributes.
>> I need to output the Features in GML. I was using MultiPolygon for my
>> needs, as ultimately the result IS a MultiPolygon. I however, don't know
>> how best to handle the attributes. My understanding is that I need to
>> declare a new complex XML element that will have GML  geometry and any
>> other attributes. The problem is that there may be different values for
>> the attribute for each of the Polygons contained. Hence, it would
>> probably be better to declare the geometry as a collection of Polygons
>> somehow.
>> Does anyone have a GML 3.1.1 example doing something like that? I find
>> it incredibely difficult to find examples for GML3.1.1, and the schemas
>> are much more complex then anything in GML2.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>>> Nope, it does gml 3 as well, you just have to use a different
>>> configuration.
>>>
>>> org.geotools.gml2.GMLConfiguration vs
>>> org.geotools.gml3.GMLConfiguration
>>>
>>> -Justin
>>>
>>> Martin Tomko wrote:
>>>> Hi Justin,
>>>> thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I think the parser in
>>>> Geotools  (as per 2.5. documentation) is only fit for GML 2.X, is
>>>> that right?
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>> Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like you are running up against the property reference pattern
>>>>> in GML, it is used quite extensively. I can't really comment on the
>>>>> XMLBeans stuff, our GML parsing uses a different engine. If
>>>>> interested here is the way you could parse a geometry:
>>>>>
>>>>> import org.geotools.gml3.GMLConfiguration;
>>>>> import org.geotools.xml.Parser;
>>>>>
>>>>> GMLConfiguration gml = new GMLConfiguration();
>>>>> Parser p = new Parser(gml);
>>>>>
>>>>> Polygon p = (Polygon) p.parse( ... );
>>>>>
>>>>> -Justin
>>>>>
>>>>> Martin Tomko wrote:
>>>>>> Possibly a topic not fitting well to Geotools, but I thought that
>>>>>> people here may know...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I need to get from GML geometry to JTS geometry, and I am using
>>>>>> custom XML beans generated from GML and a custom parser. It works
>>>>>> fine most of the time, but today I run into a wall: I have a GML
>>>>>> element in my xsd, importing GML (feature.xsd) in order tohave an
>>>>>> element as follows:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <xsd:element name="MyGeometry" type="gml:GeometryPropertyType"
>>>>>> minOccurs="0">
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When reading this element in XML beans, tI can extract the
>>>>>> GeometryPropertyType gpt, and from it I can do
>>>>>> AbstractGeometryType ageom = gpt.getGeometry
>>>>>> I have troubles to cast from the AbstractGeometryType to a
>>>>>> PolygonType (I am certain that what comes in is a polygon).
>>>>>> I wonder if this is a more common problem with GML 3.1.1 ( I seem
>>>>>> to have found some indications in that respect) or my problem in
>>>>>> the declaration of the geometry.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks, and apologies if this is not the appropriate forum.
>>>>>> Martin
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>
>
> --
> Justin Deoliveira
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
> Enterprise support for open source geospatial.
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