On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:35:41PM +0100, Armin Burger wrote:
>
> 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.
OK. This makes sense - even if WMC normally contains more information
than an capabilities document especially when you want to combine
more than one WMS to one application. In this case you will probably
have to do some scripting.
>
>
> > 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.
I prefer the GPL (or LGPL) licence since it protects the freedom of
the software better than the MIT style licence. But since you are
the main author it should be your choice. Right now we have
classified p.mapper having a MIT style licence on FreeGIS.org
anyway. Our contribution is not dependend on which Free Software
licence is chosen - it just has to be free licence :-)
Silke
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