handling styles attached to objects

[Sebastian Schmitz]

Hi,

we currently encounter a problem related to handling styles that are 
directly attached to objects. Styles are contained within the objects' 
attribute table (eg font, size, symbol....).
Mapserver already provides some mechanisms for that related to Labels. 
At the layer level eg LABELANGLEITEM or LABELITEM can be specified 
through a column in the attribute table. However, to meet our needs this 
would have to be extended to fonts used for labelling and to the some 
parameters within the STYLE object (). Two questions on that:
- Could someone supply a rough estimate of cost?
- How much would performance suffer when attaching styles at feature 
level rather than at the class level?

Cheers

Sebastian

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