Silke Reimer wrote: >>> 4 Enhance p.mapper to be a full WMS-client supporting Web Map >>> Context, adding of user defined WMS-layer etc. (seems to be >>> already on your list)
> Do you really think that XSLT is necessary for that? What you need > is the possibility to read read and write WMC-files (could be done > by mapscript as you mentioned) and read a layer tree from a > capabilities document to give the user the choice to add a single > layer from a whole WMS. This has already be done by several projects > (phpwms, maplab (mapbrowser), mapbender). Maplab seems to me the > closest to the pmapper concept. So it might be possible to learn > from that code. > Mainly because I have an XML file (capabilities) that I want to convert into another XML file (context), that's what XSLT was mainly defined for. I don't want to parse XML into PHP structures and write them back as XML in the way eg. mapbender does it. And there was already a style available from mapbuilder that did nearly all the work and just needed some adaptations. > We certainly are willing to join when we have appropriate projects > for our clients. It's good to know your plans so that we can keep > this in mind for our next steps. Some of your ideas might become > necessary for some projects anyway. In this case we will inform you > to coordinate its development (with a strong contribution by us of > course). One then also had to think about copyright issues etc. That was not an aspect for me until now. And we should agree on keeping a common license, I prefer the MIT style license. Armin
