[Xastir-Dev] proposed method of doing canoncial shapefile DBF attributes support

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Gerry Creager (N5JXS) wrote:

> Woohoo!  Metadata!  In a consistent fashion!

Look out, you woke up Gerry...


> There are standards we can tap for metadata, including GML instead of 
> awk syntax, which are reasonably mature and don't require defining our own.
> 
> If there's interest, I can get the OGC GML references and making them 
> available; they're on the OpenGIS.org site, too.
> 
> One thing I'd love to see is Xastir-2 OGC compliant for Location-Based 
> Services, among other areas.

I'm suspect Gerry knows a great deal more about this than I do, but
why not use XML instead?  Is GML some subset of XML?

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