Create Custom Export Selection Commands

Custom export commands can be used to automatically create standardized representations of selected features, including SeabedML, 1Spatial Internal Feature Format (IFF), and ASCII. Each of these commands initially creates a GML file, with the standard advanced options of the GML format, and then the GML features are automatically transformed to the desired output format.

Related commands:

To create a custom export command, you must create an XSLT style sheet for each output format and update the outputtransform.xml support file to point to that custom style sheet. When the support file is updated, a new, custom entry will be added to the list of export commands in the File menu. The application will need to be restarted to view any new additions, and it may be necessary to apply the Reset Default Layout command.

This file is located at:

C:\Program Files\CARIS\<application>\<version>\modules\Feature Editing\support\transforms

In the same folder, you will also find a sample XSLT style sheet for exporting vector data to an ASCII file, gmltoascii.xslt. This produces the Export Selection to Formatted ASCII command. This file could be used as a template for creating your own style sheets, or simpler ones are available from the CARIS Software EMS license and downloads portal.

To add additional output styles to the transform file, either replace the values in the lines of the existing sample, or add a new set of entries for each additional style and update the values accordingly. You can add up to 10 entries to the outputtransform.xml file.

The values to be defined include: