Article:		Hacking Election Maps with XML and MapServer
Subject:		not metadata
Date:		2006-01-17 16:28:38
From:		Brian Wilson
Simon, you refer to the contents of the shapefile DBF file has 'metadata'. Actually the DBF file contains attribute data. Each row in the the DBF corresponds to a feature in the SHP file. Metadata refers to data 'about' the shapefile, for example, its projection, intended use of the data, when and how it was collected; things like that. If it exists you'd find it in the file with the XML extension. Brian

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