Global element

exterior

gml:exterior

Defined in NeTEx/xsd/gml/gmlBasic2d-extract-v3_2_1-.xsd:66

A boundary of a surface consists of a number of rings. In the normal 2D case, one of these rings is distinguished as being the exterior boundary. In a general manifold this is not always possible, in which case all boundaries shall be listed as interior boundaries, and the exterior will be empty.

Type

gml:AbstractRingPropertyType

Examples

Used in 14 examples; each link goes to the first occurrence

Content model

Element structure

1 top-level
  • An abstraction of a ring to support surface boundaries of different complexity. The AbstractRing element is the abstract head of the substituition group for all closed boundaries of a surface patch.