diff --git a/lib/OpenLayers/Protocol/WCS.js b/lib/OpenLayers/Protocol/WCS.js
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-/* Copyright (c) 2006-2012 by OpenLayers Contributors (see authors.txt for 
- * full list of contributors). Published under the 2-clause BSD license.
- * See license.txt in the OpenLayers distribution or repository for the
- * full text of the license. */
-
-/**
- * @requires OpenLayers/Protocol.js
- */
-
-/**
- * Class: OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS
- * Used to create a versioned WCS protocol.  Default version is 1.0.0.
- *
- * Returns:
- * {<OpenLayers.Protocol>} A WCS protocol of the given version.
- *
- * Example:
- * (code)
- *     var protocol = new OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS({
- *         version: "1.1.0",
- *         url:  "http://demo.opengeo.org/geoserver/wcs",
- *         featureType: "tasmania_roads",
- *         featureNS: "http://www.openplans.org/topp",
- *         geometryName: "the_geom"
- *     });
- * (end)
- *
- * See the protocols for specific WCS versions for more detail.
- */
-OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS = function(options) {
-    options = OpenLayers.Util.applyDefaults(
-        options, OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.DEFAULTS
-    );
-    var cls = OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS["v"+options.version.replace(/\./g, "_")];
-    if(!cls) {
-        throw "Unsupported WCS version: " + options.version;
-    }
-    return new cls(options);
-};
-
-/**
- * Function: fromWMSLayer
- * Convenience function to create a WCS protocol from a WMS layer.  This makes
- *     the assumption that a WCS requests can be issued at the same URL as
- *     WMS requests and that a WCS featureType exists with the same name as the
- *     WMS layer.
- *     
- * This function is designed to auto-configure <url>, <featureType>,
- *     <featurePrefix> and <srsName> for WCS <version> 1.1.0. Note that
- *     srsName matching with the WMS layer will not work with WCS 1.0.0.
- * 
- * Parameters:
- * layer - {<OpenLayers.Layer.WMS>} WMS layer that has a matching WCS
- *     FeatureType at the same server url with the same typename.
- * options - {Object} Default properties to be set on the protocol.
- *
- * Returns:
- * {<OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS>}
- */
-OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.fromWMSLayer = function(layer, options) {
-    var typeName, featurePrefix;
-    var param = layer.params["LAYERS"];
-    var parts = (OpenLayers.Util.isArray(param) ? param[0] : param).split(":");
-    if(parts.length > 1) {
-        featurePrefix = parts[0];
-    }
-    typeName = parts.pop();
-    var protocolOptions = {
-        url: layer.url,
-        featureType: typeName,
-        featurePrefix: featurePrefix,
-        srsName: layer.projection && layer.projection.getCode() ||
-                 layer.map && layer.map.getProjectionObject().getCode(),
-        version: "1.1.0"
-    };
-    return new OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS(OpenLayers.Util.applyDefaults(
-        options, protocolOptions
-    ));
-};
-
-/**
- * Constant: OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.DEFAULTS
- */
-OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.DEFAULTS = {
-    "version": "1.0.0"
-};
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diff --git a/lib/OpenLayers/Protocol/WCS/v1.js b/lib/OpenLayers/Protocol/WCS/v1.js
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index 894918461b..0000000000
--- a/lib/OpenLayers/Protocol/WCS/v1.js
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-/* Copyright (c) 2006-2012 by OpenLayers Contributors (see authors.txt for 
- * full list of contributors). Published under the 2-clause BSD license.
- * See license.txt in the OpenLayers distribution or repository for the
- * full text of the license. */
-
-/**
- * @requires OpenLayers/Protocol/WCS.js
- */
-
-/**
- * Class: OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.v1
- * Abstract class for for v1.0.0 and v1.1.0 protocol.
- *
- * Inherits from:
- *  - <OpenLayers.Protocol>
- */
-OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.v1 = OpenLayers.Class(OpenLayers.Protocol, {
-    
-    /**
-     * Property: version
-     * {String} WCS version number.
-     */
-    version: null,
-    
-    /**
-     * Property: srsName
-     * {String} Name of spatial reference system.  Default is "EPSG:4326".
-     */
-    srsName: "EPSG:4326",
-    
-    /**
-     * Property: featureType
-     * {String} Local feature typeName.
-     */
-    featureType: null,
-    
-    /**
-     * Property: featureNS
-     * {String} Feature namespace.
-     */
-    featureNS: null,
-    
-    /**
-     * Property: geometryName
-     * {String} Name of the geometry attribute for features.  Default is
-     *     "the_geom" for WCS <version> 1.0, and null for higher versions.
-     */
-    geometryName: "the_geom",
-    
-    /**
-     * Property: schema
-     * {String} Optional schema location that will be included in the
-     *     schemaLocation attribute value.  Note that the feature type schema
-     *     is required for a strict XML validator (on transactions with an
-     *     insert for example), but is *not* required by the WCS specification
-     *     (since the server is supposed to know about feature type schemas).
-     */
-    schema: null,
-
-    /**
-     * Property: featurePrefix
-     * {String} Namespace alias for feature type.  Default is "feature".
-     */
-    featurePrefix: "feature",
-    
-    /**
-     * Property: formatOptions
-     * {Object} Optional options for the format.  If a format is not provided,
-     *     this property can be used to extend the default format options.
-     */
-    formatOptions: null,
-
-    /** 
-     * Property: readFormat 
-     */ 
-    readFormat: null,
-    
-    /**
-     * Property: readOptions
-     * {Object} Optional object to pass to format's read.
-     */
-    readOptions: null,
-    
-    /**
-     * Constructor: OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS
-     * A class for giving layers WCS protocol.
-     *
-     * Parameters:
-     * options - {Object} Optional object whose properties will be set on the
-     *     instance.
-     *
-     * Valid options properties:
-     * url - {String} URL to send requests to (required).
-     * featureType - {String} Local (without prefix) feature typeName (required).
-     * featureNS - {String} Feature namespace (required, but can be autodetected
-     *     during the first query if GML is used as readFormat and
-     *     featurePrefix is provided and matches the prefix used by the server
-     *     for this featureType).
-     * featurePrefix - {String} Feature namespace alias (optional - only used
-     *     for writing if featureNS is provided).  Default is 'feature'.
-     * geometryName - {String} Name of geometry attribute.  The default is
-     *     'the_geom' for WCS <version> 1.0, and null for higher versions. If
-     *     null, it will be set to the name of the first geometry found in the
-     *     first read operation.
-     * multi - {Boolean} If set to true, geometries will be casted to Multi
-     *     geometries before they are written in a transaction. No casting will
-     *     be done when reading features.
-     */
-    initialize: function(options) {
-        OpenLayers.Protocol.prototype.initialize.apply(this, [options]);
-        
-        if (!options.geometryName && parseFloat(this.format.version) > 1.0) {
-            this.setGeometryName(null);
-        }
-    },
-    
-    /**
-     * APIMethod: destroy
-     * Clean up the protocol.
-     */
-    destroy: function() {
-        if(this.options && !this.options.format) {
-            this.format.destroy();
-        }
-        this.format = null;
-        OpenLayers.Protocol.prototype.destroy.apply(this);
-    },
-
-    /**
-     * APIMethod: read
-     * Construct a request for reading new features.  Since WCS splits the
-     *     basic CRUD operations into GetFeature requests (for read) and
-     *     Transactions (for all others), this method does not make use of the
-     *     format's read method (that is only about reading transaction
-     *     responses).
-     *
-     * Parameters:
-     * options - {Object} Options for the read operation, in addition to the
-     *     options set on the instance (options set here will take precedence).
-     *
-     * To use a configured protocol to get e.g. a WCS hit count, applications
-     * could do the following:
-     *
-     * (code)
-     * protocol.read({
-     *     readOptions: {output: "object"},
-     *     resultType: "hits",
-     *     maxFeatures: null,
-     *     callback: function(resp) {
-     *         // process resp.numberOfFeatures here
-     *     }
-     * });
-     * (end)
-     *
-     * To use a configured protocol to use WCS paging (if supported by the
-     * server), applications could do the following:
-     *
-     * (code)
-     * protocol.read({
-     *     startIndex: 0,
-     *     count: 50
-     * });
-     * (end)
-     *
-     * To limit the attributes returned by the GetFeature request, applications
-     * can use the propertyNames option to specify the properties to include in
-     * the response:
-     *
-     * (code)
-     * protocol.read({
-     *     propertyNames: ["DURATION", "INTENSITY"]
-     * });
-     * (end)
-     */
-    read: function(options) {
-        OpenLayers.Protocol.prototype.read.apply(this, arguments);
-        options = OpenLayers.Util.extend({}, options);
-        OpenLayers.Util.applyDefaults(options, this.options || {});
-        var response = new OpenLayers.Protocol.Response({requestType: "read"});
-        
-        var data = OpenLayers.Format.XML.prototype.write.apply(
-            this.format, [this.format.writeNode("wcs:GetFeature", options)]
-        );
-
-        response.priv = OpenLayers.Request.POST({
-            url: options.url,
-            callback: this.createCallback(this.handleRead, response, options),
-            params: options.params,
-            headers: options.headers,
-            data: data
-        });
-
-        return response;
-    },
-
-    /**
-     * APIMethod: setFeatureType
-     * Change the feature type on the fly.
-     *
-     * Parameters:
-     * featureType - {String} Local (without prefix) feature typeName.
-     */
-    setFeatureType: function(featureType) {
-        this.featureType = featureType;
-        this.format.featureType = featureType;
-    },
- 
-    /**
-     * APIMethod: setGeometryName
-     * Sets the geometryName option after instantiation.
-     *
-     * Parameters:
-     * geometryName - {String} Name of geometry attribute.
-     */
-    setGeometryName: function(geometryName) {
-        this.geometryName = geometryName;
-        this.format.geometryName = geometryName;
-    },
-    
-    /**
-     * Method: handleRead
-     * Deal with response from the read request.
-     *
-     * Parameters:
-     * response - {<OpenLayers.Protocol.Response>} The response object to pass
-     *     to the user callback.
-     * options - {Object} The user options passed to the read call.
-     */
-    handleRead: function(response, options) {
-        options = OpenLayers.Util.extend({}, options);
-        OpenLayers.Util.applyDefaults(options, this.options);
-
-        if(options.callback) {
-            var request = response.priv;
-            if(request.status >= 200 && request.status < 300) {
-                // success
-                var result = this.parseResponse(request, options.readOptions);
-                if (result && result.success !== false) { 
-                    if (options.readOptions && options.readOptions.output == "object") {
-                        OpenLayers.Util.extend(response, result);
-                    } else {
-                        response.features = result;
-                    }
-                    response.code = OpenLayers.Protocol.Response.SUCCESS;
-                } else {
-                    // failure (service exception)
-                    response.code = OpenLayers.Protocol.Response.FAILURE;
-                    response.error = result;
-                }
-            } else {
-                // failure
-                response.code = OpenLayers.Protocol.Response.FAILURE;
-            }
-            options.callback.call(options.scope, response);
-        }
-    },
-
-    /**
-     * Method: parseResponse
-     * Read HTTP response body and return features
-     *
-     * Parameters:
-     * request - {XMLHttpRequest} The request object
-     * options - {Object} Optional object to pass to format's read
-     *
-     * Returns:
-     * {Object} or {Array({<OpenLayers.Feature.Vector>})} or
-     *     {<OpenLayers.Feature.Vector>} 
-     * An object with a features property, an array of features or a single 
-     * feature.
-     */
-    parseResponse: function(request, options) {
-        var doc = request.responseXML;
-        if(!doc || !doc.documentElement) {
-            doc = request.responseText;
-        }
-        if(!doc || doc.length <= 0) {
-            return null;
-        }
-        var result = (this.readFormat !== null) ? this.readFormat.read(doc) : 
-            this.format.read(doc, options);
-        if (!this.featureNS) {
-            var format = this.readFormat || this.format;
-            this.featureNS = format.featureNS;
-            // no need to auto-configure again on subsequent reads
-            format.autoConfig = false;
-            if (!this.geometryName) {
-                this.setGeometryName(format.geometryName);
-            }
-        }
-        return result;
-    },
-
-    /**
-     * Method: commit
-     * Given a list of feature, assemble a batch request for update, create,
-     *     and delete transactions.  A commit call on the prototype amounts
-     *     to writing a WCS transaction - so the write method on the format
-     *     is used.
-     *
-     * Parameters:
-     * features - {Array(<OpenLayers.Feature.Vector>)}
-     * options - {Object}
-     *
-     * Valid options properties:
-     * nativeElements - {Array({Object})} Array of objects with information for writing
-     * out <Native> elements, these objects have vendorId, safeToIgnore and
-     * value properties. The <Native> element is intended to allow access to 
-     * vendor specific capabilities of any particular web feature server or 
-     * datastore.
-     *
-     * Returns:
-     * {<OpenLayers.Protocol.Response>} A response object with a features
-     *     property containing any insertIds and a priv property referencing
-     *     the XMLHttpRequest object.
-     */
-    commit: function(features, options) {
-
-        options = OpenLayers.Util.extend({}, options);
-        OpenLayers.Util.applyDefaults(options, this.options);
-        
-        var response = new OpenLayers.Protocol.Response({
-            requestType: "commit",
-            reqFeatures: features
-        });
-        response.priv = OpenLayers.Request.POST({
-            url: options.url,
-            headers: options.headers,
-            data: this.format.write(features, options),
-            callback: this.createCallback(this.handleCommit, response, options)
-        });
-        
-        return response;
-    },
-    
-    /**
-     * Method: handleCommit
-     * Called when the commit request returns.
-     * 
-     * Parameters:
-     * response - {<OpenLayers.Protocol.Response>} The response object to pass
-     *     to the user callback.
-     * options - {Object} The user options passed to the commit call.
-     */
-    handleCommit: function(response, options) {
-        if(options.callback) {
-            var request = response.priv;
-
-            // ensure that we have an xml doc
-            var data = request.responseXML;
-            if(!data || !data.documentElement) {
-                data = request.responseText;
-            }
-            
-            var obj = this.format.read(data) || {};
-            
-            response.insertIds = obj.insertIds || [];
-            if (obj.success) {
-                response.code = OpenLayers.Protocol.Response.SUCCESS;
-            } else {
-                response.code = OpenLayers.Protocol.Response.FAILURE;
-                response.error = obj;
-            }
-            options.callback.call(options.scope, response);
-        }
-    },
-    
-    /**
-     * Method: filterDelete
-     * Send a request that deletes all features by their filter.
-     * 
-     * Parameters:
-     * filter - {<OpenLayers.Filter>} filter
-     */
-    filterDelete: function(filter, options) {
-        options = OpenLayers.Util.extend({}, options);
-        OpenLayers.Util.applyDefaults(options, this.options);    
-        
-        var response = new OpenLayers.Protocol.Response({
-            requestType: "commit"
-        });    
-        
-        var root = this.format.createElementNSPlus("wcs:Transaction", {
-            attributes: {
-                service: "WCS",
-                version: this.version
-            }
-        });
-        
-        var deleteNode = this.format.createElementNSPlus("wcs:Delete", {
-            attributes: {
-                typeName: (options.featureNS ? this.featurePrefix + ":" : "") +
-                    options.featureType
-            }
-        });       
-        
-        if(options.featureNS) {
-            deleteNode.setAttribute("xmlns:" + this.featurePrefix, options.featureNS);
-        }
-        var filterNode = this.format.writeNode("ogc:Filter", filter);
-        
-        deleteNode.appendChild(filterNode);
-        
-        root.appendChild(deleteNode);
-        
-        var data = OpenLayers.Format.XML.prototype.write.apply(
-            this.format, [root]
-        );
-        
-        return OpenLayers.Request.POST({
-            url: this.url,
-            callback : options.callback || function(){},
-            data: data
-        });   
-        
-    },
-
-    /**
-     * Method: abort
-     * Abort an ongoing request, the response object passed to
-     * this method must come from this protocol (as a result
-     * of a read, or commit operation).
-     *
-     * Parameters:
-     * response - {<OpenLayers.Protocol.Response>}
-     */
-    abort: function(response) {
-        if (response) {
-            response.priv.abort();
-        }
-    },
-  
-    CLASS_NAME: "OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.v1" 
-});
diff --git a/lib/OpenLayers/Protocol/WCS/v1_0_0.js b/lib/OpenLayers/Protocol/WCS/v1_0_0.js
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index 54a5b8b3a2..0000000000
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@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-/* Copyright (c) 2006-2012 by OpenLayers Contributors (see authors.txt for 
- * full list of contributors). Published under the 2-clause BSD license.
- * See license.txt in the OpenLayers distribution or repository for the
- * full text of the license. */
-
-/**
- * @requires OpenLayers/Protocol/WCS/v1.js
- */
-
-/**
- * Class: OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.v1_0_0
- * A WCS v1.0.0 protocol for vector layers.  Create a new instance with the
- *     <OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.v1_0_0> constructor.
- *
- * Inherits from:
- *  - <OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.v1>
- */
-OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.v1_0_0 = OpenLayers.Class(OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.v1, {
-    
-    /**
-     * Property: version
-     * {String} WCS version number.
-     */
-    version: "1.0.0",
-    
-    /**
-     * Constructor: OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.v1_0_0
-     * A class for giving layers WCS v1.0.0 protocol.
-     *
-     * Parameters:
-     * options - {Object} Optional object whose properties will be set on the
-     *     instance.
-     *
-     * Valid options properties:
-     * featureType - {String} Local (without prefix) feature typeName (required).
-     * featureNS - {String} Feature namespace (optional).
-     * featurePrefix - {String} Feature namespace alias (optional - only used
-     *     if featureNS is provided).  Default is 'feature'.
-     * geometryName - {String} Name of geometry attribute.  Default is 'the_geom'.
-     */
-   
-    CLASS_NAME: "OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.v1_0_0" 
-});
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diff --git a/lib/OpenLayers/Protocol/WCS/v1_1_0.js b/lib/OpenLayers/Protocol/WCS/v1_1_0.js
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index 05b86f11e8..0000000000
--- a/lib/OpenLayers/Protocol/WCS/v1_1_0.js
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-/* ======================================================================
-    OpenLayers/Protocol/WCS/v1_1_0.js
-   ====================================================================== */
-
-/* Copyright (c) 2006-2012 by OpenLayers Contributors (see authors.txt for 
- * full list of contributors). Published under the 2-clause BSD license.
- * See license.txt in the OpenLayers distribution or repository for the
- * full text of the license. */
-
-/**
- * @requires OpenLayers/Protocol/WCS/v1.js
- */
-
-/**
- * Class: OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.v1_1_0
- * A WCS v1.1.0 protocol for vector layers.  Create a new instance with the
- *     <OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.v1_1_0> constructor.
- *
- * Differences from the v1.0.0 protocol:
- *  - uses Filter Encoding 1.1.0 instead of 1.0.0
- *  - uses GML 3 instead of 2 if no format is provided
- *  
- * Inherits from:
- *  - <OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.v1>
- */
-OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.v1_1_0 = OpenLayers.Class(OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.v1, {
-    
-    /**
-     * Property: version
-     * {String} WCS version number.
-     */
-    version: "1.1.0",
-    
-   
-   
-    CLASS_NAME: "OpenLayers.Protocol.WCS.v1_1_0"
-});