| | 21 | = MapServer Toronto Code Sprint 2009 = |
| | 22 | |
| | 23 | == Agenda == |
| | 24 | |
| | 25 | See http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009_Agenda#Mapserver |
| | 26 | |
| | 27 | == Minutes, Actions, Decisions == |
| | 28 | |
| | 29 | === 1. XML mapfiles === |
| | 30 | |
| | 31 | * A draft RFC is at http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-51.html |
| | 32 | * There are concerns about the use of the CWXML library and the benefits of a binary encoded format |
| | 33 | * The need we are trying to address is the ability to build MapFile Editors that would be facilitated by the existence of a XML mapfile format (since the current mapfile format makes it impossible to write a forward-compatible parser) |
| | 34 | * There are concerns about having to support another set of parsing functions. Just keeping the existing mapfile.x read/write functions in sync is already a challenge, so adding another set of reader/writer functions for XML will just make this worse. |
| | 35 | * Conclusion: After discussion, it was decided that for the time being we should '''develop a XML schema and a XSLT to convert from XML to text mapfile'''. If the new XML format takes off then we may consider implementing support for it directly in MapServer in a future release. It is understood that the XSLT approach doesn't provide a way to convert from text mapfile to XML, but this is a limitation we can live with for now. |
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| | 37 | === 2. Graphical rendering === |
| | 38 | |
| | 39 | * Discussion of the approach of rendering plugins |
| | 40 | * Conclusions??? |
| | 41 | |
| | 42 | === 3. Attribute type handling (for WFS) === |
| | 43 | |
| | 44 | * Ticket: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/462 |
| | 45 | * An itemObj structure has already been added to mapprimitive.h. We agree that this is the way to go, the C code should be updated to use itemObj instead of the array of itemnames, etc. |
| | 46 | * A RFC would be required for this. |
| | 47 | |
| | 48 | === 4. Metadata and processing directives abuse === |
| | 49 | |
| | 50 | * What can we do about this? |
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