[Chameleon] MetadataURL

[Paul Spencer]

Bart,

any metadata is available in any legend template and this is not in any 
way limited by Chameleon, so if mapserver supports 
wms_metadata_onlineresource (or whatever it is called) then you can use 
it directly in your legend template.

It would require changes to get the ExtractWFSData or any other widget 
to 'know' about any metadata and try to do something intelligent with it.

Cheers,

Paul

Bart van den Eijnden wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I read on the Mapserver list that the MetadataURL will probably be a 
> target for the Mapserver 4.2 release.
> 
> Will the metadataURL also be useable in Chameleon (PHP/Mapscript)?
> 
> I assume there will be another wms_ metadata variable (like wms_title) 
> which can be used, for example in the Legend Template.
> 
> This will allow the possibility to have a link in the LegendTemplate 
> around the layer title which pops up the metadata (identified by the 
> MetadataURL) with a simple piece of javascript.
> 
> Another possibility would be to have the metadata downloaded together 
> with the zip (or tar.gz) file which is the result of the ExtractWFSData 
> widget.
> 
> Is my assumption right that it will be possible to build this kind of 
> functionality in Chameleon in the near future, or won't the MetadataURL 
> be accessible in PHP/Mapscript / Chameleon?
> 
> BTW: will Mapserver 4.2 and Chameleon 2.0 (and even Maplab 3.0 perhaps) 
> have the same release date?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
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