function toGeoJSON()
 {
     $gmlDoc = new SimpleXMLElement($this->doc);
     $gmlDoc->registerXPathNamespace('xls', 'http://www.opengis.net/xls');
     $gmlDoc->registerXPathNamespace('wfs', 'http://www.opengis.net/wfs');
     $gmlDoc->registerXPathNamespace('gml', 'http://www.opengis.net/gml');
     // build feature collection
     $featureCollection = new FeatureCollection();
     // segments of the featzreCollection
     $gmlFeatureMembers = $gmlDoc->xpath("//gml:featureMember");
     if (count($gmlFeatureMembers) > 0) {
         $cnt = 0;
         foreach ($gmlFeatureMembers as $gmlFeatureMember) {
             $featureMember_dom = dom_import_simplexml($gmlFeatureMember);
             $feature = new Feature();
             if ($this->geomFeaturetypeElement != null) {
                 $feature->parse($featureMember_dom, $this->geomFeaturetypeElement);
             } else {
                 $feature->parse($featureMember_dom);
             }
             if (isset($feature->geometry)) {
                 $featureCollection->addFeature($feature);
             }
             $cnt++;
         }
         return $featureCollection->toGeoJSON();
     } else {
         return "{}";
     }
 }