This schema defines common request and response messages for the GetCapabilities operation. Copyright (c) 2002 OGC, All Rights Reserved. Requests the capability profile for the service. service : a URI reference to request the profile for a particular service type; version : the version of the request syntax; timeStamp : a dateTime stamp (ISO 8601 format) that requests the profile in effect at the specified instant. xpath : an XPath 1.0 expression that specifies a set of nodes in the capability profile; view : a named view that specifies a subset of the profile. id : a list of xsd:anyURI values that selects specific elements of the capability profile by their unique identifier.