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

[Alan Crosswell]

Isn't what I'm describing actually meta-metadata?  We are presented with 
metadata from the source of the maps and have to live with that.  My data is 
just to translate that data to what used internally by xastir.
/a

Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> 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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