Writing to KML with ExtendedData

Hi Sendhil,

 

The FME Readers and Writers Manual will help you out here. You can access it through Help > FME Readers and Writers in the menubar of Workbench.

 

 

Navigate to Google Earth KML > Feature Represenation > Extended Data. Here you will see the names of the attributes you need to use to create extended data.

 

 

Basically you need to create list attributes, kml_data{}.name and kml_data{}.value. If you need there is also kml_schema_url to define the URL of the schema being used.

 

 

I hope this helps to answer your question,

 

 

Regards

 

 

Mark

 

 

Mark Ireland

 

Product Evangelist

 

Safe Software Inc.

Sendhil,

 

Looking at the screenshots in the link sent by you,could I ask you to check out KMLPropertySetter transformer in FME Workbench?

 

 

http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Transformers/Default.htm#Transformers/kmlpropertysetter.htm

 

 

Cheers

 

SRG

SRG / Mark:

 

 

Thanks for your responses.  I was able to make a bit more progress based on your input.  Here is where I am:

 

 

I was able to get the data to look like this:

 

 

<Placemark id="kml_1"> <name>Test Project</name> <description>Installation of Infrastructure.</description> <styleUrl>Road Construction</styleUrl> <ExtendedData> <SchemaData schemaUrl="#kml_schema_ft_CIP_FACILITIES"> <SimpleData name="Agency">Henderson</SimpleData> <SimpleData name="StartDate">07/01/2013</SimpleData> <SimpleData name="EndDate">06/30/2015</SimpleData> <SimpleData name="Contact">John Doe</SimpleData> <SimpleData name="AProjectID">X-251</SimpleData> </SchemaData> </ExtendedData> <Point> <coordinates>-113.92,36.213,0 </coordinates> </Point> </Placemark>

 

 

I am trying to get the data to look like this:

 

 

<Placemark id="kml_1"> <name>Test Project</name> <description>Installation of Infrastructure.</description> <styleUrl>Road Construction</styleUrl> <ExtendedData xmlns:pdif="http://www.rtcnv.com/pdif/1.0"> <pdif:Agency>Henderson</pdif:Agency> <pdif:StartDate>07/01/2013</pdif:StartDate> <pdif:EndDate>06/30/2015</pdif:EndDate> <pdif:Contact>John Doe</pdif:Contact> <pdif:AProjectID>X-251</pdif:AProjectID> </ExtendedData> <Point> <coordinates>-113.92,36.213,0 </coordinates> </Point> </Placemark>

 

I tried using the km_extended_xmlns_prefix (=pdif) and  km_extended_xmlns_url (=http://www.rtcnv.com/pdif/1.0) format attributes, but that removes the whole ExtendedData block.

 

 

Any ideas on what I am missing or doing wrong?

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Sendhil

 

The format attributes were kml_extended_data_xmlns_prefix and kml_extended_data_xmlns_url - just discovered the typo I had made earlier.