The numberReturned parameter should be able to have the value

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Change Request 144
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Assigned OGC 11-040
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Name: *Panagiotis (Peter) A. Vretanos
Organization: *CubeWerx Inc.
Email: *pvretano@cubewerx.com
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*Web Feature Service Specification v2.0 (09-025r1) / 2.0

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*09-025r1

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*The numberReturned parameter should be able to have the value "unknown".
*SAA Pilot

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C (Functional modification of feature)

Reason for *
change:

From the SAA pilot:
numberMatched can be 'unknown', so in case if the actual number of

matched features is smaller than the 'count' parameter, or the count
parameter is not set, what should the value of 'numberReturned' be?
Shouldn't it be possible to set this attribute to 'unknown'?

Summary of *
change:

Change the type of numberReturned from xsd:nonNegativeInteger to
wfs:nonNegativeIntegerOrUnknown and update specification text
accordingly.

Consequences if WFS implementation that stream results will not be able to report a valid response document.
not approved:

Clauses *
affected:

7.7.4.2, 7.7.4.3

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WFS WG

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