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I've had problems with rendering multiple geometry in QGIS. At first, I thought that it's problem of GDAL: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/6031

It's not. QGIS (v 1.6.0 on windows 7, both 32 and 64-bit) generates .gfs file, that does not support GDAL 1.11 options for multiple geometries.

This is 'geometry' part of QGIS-generated .gfs file:

    <Name>CadastralParcel</Name>
    <ElementPath>CadastralParcel</ElementPath>
    <GeometryType>3</GeometryType>
    <SRSName>EPSG:5514</SRSName>

This is how it should look like (according to the answer on GDAL bug report linked above):

    <Name>CadastralParcel</Name>
    <ElementPath>CadastralParcel</ElementPath>
    <GeomPropertyDefn>
      <Name>polygonGeometry</Name>
      <ElementPath>geometry</ElementPath>
      <GeometryType>3</GeometryType>
      <SRSName>EPSG:5514</SRSName>
    </GeomPropertyDefn>

According to the document "Starting with OGR 1.11, the <GeometryElementPath> and <GeometryType> can be specified as many times as there are geometry fields in the GML file. Another possibility is to define a <GeomPropertyDefn>element as many times as necessary."

If .gfs is manually rewritten, it renderes features fine according to the first geometryType element in the file. If there is more than one geometry definition, QGIS reads the first one and ignores the second one. That is really not comfortable for 'ordinary users'.

It would be nice to do:

1. proper generating of .gfs
2. tool faciliating selecting type of geometry to be used