I am the technical lead of GA’s effort to adopt GeodesyML. I see that you’ve solved your problem by upgrading to a later version of GeoServer. I would like to suggest a slightly different approach to your mapping and share with you our own implementation of a GeodesyML web feature service, which you may find helpful.

Our interpretation is that GeodesyML root element exists for use outside of the OGC/WFS context. Parties may wish to exchange GodesyML documents, by means other than WFS, containing multiple entities, as in the following example:

https://github.com/GeoscienceAustralia/GeodesyML/blob/master/examples/MOBS.xml.

For your WFS service, perhaps you could consider defining a feature type called SiteLog to generate responses of the form:

<wfs:member>
    <geo:SiteLog>
        <geo:siteIdentification>
            <geo:fourCharacterId>…</geo:fourCharacterId>
            <geo:siteName>…</geo:siteName>
             …
        </geo:siteIdentification>
    </geo:SiteLog>
     …
</wfs:member>

Web feature services can return any XML type that is a subtype of GML AbstractFeatureType. This approach would allow you to implement multiple GeodesyML WFS services returning different feature types like geo:SiteLog, geo:Site, geo:Setup, geo:Node, which are all top-level entities, in the sense that they are all subtypes of GML AbstractFeatureType. Otherwise, I don’t know how would clients of a single feature type called geo:GeodesyML specify what information they are interested in. SiteLog is just one entity type modelled by GeodesyML.

Here is a link to the data directory of a GeoServer 2.9.1 instance at Geoscience Australia that implements WFS feature type geo:Site:

https://github.com/GeoscienceAustralia/Geodesy-Web-Services/tree/next/gws-geoserver/data

This service drives the search screen for our GNSS Site Manager web application, which is currently in development.

Here is a sample query:

<wfs:GetFeature xmlns:wfs="http://www.opengis.net/wfs/2.0" xmlns:fes="http://www.opengis.net/fes/2.0" service="WFS" version="2.0.0">

<wfs:Query typeNames="geo:Site">
    <fes:Or>
        <fes:PropertyIsEqualTo>
            <fes:Literal>true</fes:Literal>
            <fes:Function name="isLike">
                <fes:ValueReference>gml:identifier</fes:ValueReference>
                <fes:Literal>(?i)ad.*</fes:Literal>
            </fes:Function>
        </fes:PropertyIsEqualTo>
        <fes:PropertyIsEqualTo>
            <fes:Literal>true</fes:Literal>
            <fes:Function name="isLike">
                <fes:ValueReference>gml:name</fes:ValueReference>
                <fes:Literal>(?i).*ad.*</fes:Literal>
            </fes:Function>
        </fes:PropertyIsEqualTo>
    </fes:Or>
    <fes:SortBy>
        <fes:SortProperty>
            <fes:ValueReference>gml:identifier</fes:ValueReference>
        </fes:SortProperty>
  </fes:SortBy>
</wfs:Query>

</wfs:GetFeature>

and the response:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<wfs:FeatureCollection xmlns:wfs="http://www.opengis.net/wfs/2.0" xmlns:geo="urn:xml-gov-au:icsm:egeodesy:0.4" xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" numberMatched="unknown" numberReturned="4" timeStamp="2017-06-21T23:01:54.436Z" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/wfs/2.0 http://testgeodesy-geoserver.geodesy.ga.gov.au:80/geoserver/schemas/wfs/2.0/wfs.xsd urn:xml-gov-au:icsm:egeodesy:0.4 http://schemas.ga.gov.au/geodesyml/0.4/geodesyML.xsd http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2 http://testgeodesy-geoserver.geodesy.ga.gov.au:80/geoserver/schemas/gml/3.2.1/gml.xsd">
   <wfs:member>
      <geo:Site gml:id="Site.852">
         <gml:identifier codeSpace="urn:xml-gov-au:icsm:egeodesy:0.4:SiteIdentifier">ADE1</gml:identifier>
         <gml:name codeSpace="urn:xml-gov-au:icsm:egeodesy:0.4:SiteName">Australia NGA collocated</gml:name>
         <geo:type codeSpace="urn:xml-gov-au:icsm:egeodesy:0.4:SiteType">CORS</geo:type>
      </geo:Site>
   </wfs:member>
   <wfs:member>
      <geo:Site gml:id="Site.895">
         <gml:identifier codeSpace="urn:xml-gov-au:icsm:egeodesy:0.4:SiteIdentifier">QUI3</gml:identifier>
         <gml:name codeSpace="urn:xml-gov-au:icsm:egeodesy:0.4:SiteName">Ecuador NGA colocated</gml:name>
         <geo:type codeSpace="urn:xml-gov-au:icsm:egeodesy:0.4:SiteType">CORS</geo:type>
      </geo:Site>
   </wfs:member>
   <wfs:member>
      <geo:Site gml:id="Site.878">
         <gml:identifier codeSpace="urn:xml-gov-au:icsm:egeodesy:0.4:SiteIdentifier">QUI4</gml:identifier>
         <gml:name codeSpace="urn:xml-gov-au:icsm:egeodesy:0.4:SiteName">Ecuador NGA colocated</gml:name>
         <geo:type codeSpace="urn:xml-gov-au:icsm:egeodesy:0.4:SiteType">CORS</geo:type>
      </geo:Site>
   </wfs:member>
   <wfs:member>
      <geo:Site gml:id="Site.861">
         <gml:identifier codeSpace="urn:xml-gov-au:icsm:egeodesy:0.4:SiteIdentifier">WSRT</gml:identifier>
         <gml:name codeSpace="urn:xml-gov-au:icsm:egeodesy:0.4:SiteName">Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope</gml:name>
         <geo:type codeSpace="urn:xml-gov-au:icsm:egeodesy:0.4:SiteType">CORS</geo:type>
      </geo:Site>
   </wfs:member>
</wfs:FeatureCollection>

I know that this does not directly answer your question, but instead proposes a slightly different approach, which may side-step your current problem and also be a better way forward. Please let me know what you think.

Regards,

Lazar Bodor
Software Development & Support Section
ICT Innovation and Services | GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA

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