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Make wms layer groups requestable #209

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16 changes: 7 additions & 9 deletions en/ogc/wms_server.txt
Expand Up @@ -1831,22 +1831,20 @@ Layer Object Metadata
of hierarchically nested groups. This grouped hierarchy will be
expressed in the capabilities.

WMS_LAYER_GROUP is different from the GROUP keyword in that it does not
necessarily publish the name of the group in the capabilities, only the
title is always published. If a layer with the same name as used in
WMS_LAYER_GROUP is found it is treated as named group and if no layer with
this name is found as unnamed group.

As a consequence the groups set with WMS_LAYER_GROUP can not always
be requested with a GetMap or GetFeatureInfo request (see section
From MapServer 7.2, WMS_LAYER_GROUP is similar to the GROUP keyword in that
it necessarily publishes the name and the tile of the group in the
capabilities.

As a consequence the groups set with WMS_LAYER_GROUP can always be
requested with a GetMap or GetFeatureInfo request (see section
7.1.4.5.2 of the WMS implementation specification version
1.1.1. (OGC 01-068r2)). Another difference is that GROUP does not
support nested groups. The purpose of this metadata setting is to
enable making a WMS client aware of layer grouping.

All group names should be preceded by a forward slash (/). It is not
allowed to use both the WMS_LAYER_GROUP setting and the GROUP
keyword for a single layer.
keyword for a single layer. GROUP can be seen as deprecated!

.. code-block:: mapfile

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