[TinyOWS-users] Retrieve empty attributes

[Olivier Courtin]

On Sep 15, 2010, at 10:44 AM, Rahkonen Jukka wrote:

Hi Jukka,

> > http://tinyows.org/trac/ticket/51
>
> Is this really a bug? If I remember right Geoserver is behaving in  
> the same way and does not send empty attributes.  WFS standard  
> obviously believes that users are reading the schema first with  
> DescribeFeatureType request.  Of course this is often very  
> unpleasant, for example when sending just GetFeatures with wget or  
> browser or something like that. At least I would rather get also the  
> empty attributes included in GML.

Thanks for this input,
I did'nt have yet took time to explore this one more than opening the  
ticket.

The general idea is to (still) been able to validate the output agaist  
the
DescribeFeature schema on a given layer even if there's empty  
attributes in it.

As you suggest maybe that's already done...

--
Olivier