james passmore created an issue |
Issue Type: |
Bug |
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Affects Versions: |
2.4.0 |
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WMS |
Created: |
31/Jan/14 6:19 AM |
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SLD WMS |
Priority: |
Minor |
Reporter: |
GeoServer should advertise within its WMS GetCapabilities response (extended capabilities section) that is has SLD capabilities.
The fact that this mechanism was intended for SLD capable WMS was recently mentioned in WMS-1.4.swg discussions.
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From: WMS-1.4.swg wms-1.4.swg-bounces@anonymised.com On Behalf Of Jeff de La Beaujardiere
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: [WMS-1.4.swg] [Meteo.DWG] support for user-defined color scales in WMS 1.4?
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I can answer your question about why SLD is not mentioned in WMS 1.3: it is an unfortunate side-effect of the submission as ISO 19128. ISO review said we could not normatively reference a non-ISO standard in an ISO standard. As a result, the STYLES parameter is present, but the SLD-specific DescribeLayer, GetLegendGraphic, GetStyles, and PutStyles requests are not present. The intent was to allow such requests as “Extended capabilities” per clause 6.9.5. I do not know whether anybody has created a WMS 1.3 with these functions.
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