2011

Table Of Contents
To work with ESRI ArcSDE data
Add ArcSDE features to your map (page 316)
Style ArcSDE features (page 639)
Join ArcSDE data to a different feature (page 509)
Examine or edit attribute data (page 711)
View an ArcSDE schema (page 608)
Working with WFS Data
An OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) provides access to geographic features
that are stored in an opaque data store (page 2059) in a client/server environment.
A client uses WFS to retrieve geospatial data that is encoded in Geography
Markup Language (GML) from a single or multiple WFS. The communication
between client and server is encoded in XML. If the WFS response includes
feature geometries, it is encoded in Geography Markup Language (GML),
which is specified in the OpenGIS Geographic Markup Language
Implementation Specification. WFS is a read-only provider.
NOTE This functionality affects geospatial feature data only.There is no equivalent
for drawing data.
What WFS Schemas Support
A WFS schema (page 2073) can support the following:
Inheritance
Multiple schemas
Object properties
Association properties
These geometry types: point, line string, polygon, multi-point, multi-line
string, multi-polygon, multi-geometry, curve string, curve polygon,
multi-curve string, multi-curve polygon, linear ring, line string segment,
circular arc segment, and ring
Multi-geometry
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