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How to do it...
Carry out the following steps:
1. Create a new file named
wfst.html
. Open it and add the
<head>
and
<body>
tags. In the
<head>
tag, import the
OpenLayers
library:
<html>
<head>
<title>Consuming a WFS-T with
OpenLayers</title>
<script src="http://openlayers.org/
api/OpenLayers.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
2. Add a
<div>
tag in the
<body>
tag to contain the OpenLayers map, as
shown in the following code; the map will have a width of 700 pixels and a
height of 400 pixels:
<div style="width:700px; height:400px"
id="map"></div>.
3. Justafterthe
<div>
tagismadetocontainthemap,addaJavaScriptscript.
Insidethescript,startsetting
ProxyHost
totheweblocationwhereyoude-
ployedyourproxyscript.Then,createanewOpenLayersmap,asshownin
the following code:
<script type="text/javascript">
// set the proxy
OpenLayers.ProxyHost = "/cgi-bin/
proxy.cgi?url=";
// create the map
var map = new OpenLayers.Map('map');
</script>
