[WFS FES SWG] Consistency in the returned collection class

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Name: *Gobe Hobona Organization: *Envitia

Email: *[email protected] Document

Name/Version:

*Gazetteer Service - Application Proﬁle of the Web Feature Service Best Practice / 1.0

OGC Project Document:

*11-122r1

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Title: *[WFS/FES SWG] Consistency in the returned collection class

Source: *Envitia for OWS-10

Work item code:

Category: * C (Functional modiﬁcation of feature)

Reason for change:

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The WFS-G BP specifies that the top level container should be an iso19112:SI_Collection element but then gives an example that uses a wfs:FeatureCollection element.

Summary of change:

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Constrain the WFS-G Response to only providing wfs:FeatureCollection as the top-level container

Consequences if not approved:

It may lead to exceptions if clients do not know what top-level container (root element) to expect.

Clauses affected: *

Pages 24, 29, 38

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Comments:

Status: Assigned

Assigned To: WFS/FES SWG

Disposition: Referred and Posted