OpenCities Map Forum Building Schema from Existing XFM files.

Building Schema from Existing XFM files.

Is it possible to generate the feature definitions from an existing XFM DGN?

If I import a MapInfo TAB into a DGN, it will generate the XFM attributes. But can I import these features (either from the DGN or MapInfo TAB file) into the Geospatial Administrator to simplify the generation of the features (and simplify changing products).

Regards Ian

Offline Gijsbert Wed, Nov 26 2008 10:16 AM
Hi Ian,

Great idea.

The answer is: not automatically, unfortunately.

This is how you/we could make it work:

Save the GIS import definititions in a impx file;

Define a stylesheet (XSLT) to take the contents of the impx file and create an XFM schema with it;

Transform the impx using the XSLT

The challenge is that the XML formats for the impx and XFM schema file have not been 'formalized' in a XSD. So it would require some in-depth (reverse) engineering. Maybe a topic for the geospatial desktop community?

Cheers,

Gijsbert
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Jeff Nolan Tue, Dec 16 2008 3:02 PM
This is a great idea, and would be valid for shp files also. The user could import all their shape files into Bentley Map, and then create a schema.
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Online Oto Thu, Mar 31 2016 8:21 AM in reply to Jeff Nolan
Has anyone done this?
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