if I understand your problem you need to "highlight" selected features but not using WFS, instead using WMS?<br><br>If that is the case<br><br>This example should do what you are looking for:<br><br><a href="http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/a/release-2.10/examples/SLDSelect.html">http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/a/release-2.10/examples/SLDSelect.html</a><br>
<br>Regards,<br>Alessandro Ferrucci<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Phil Scadden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p.scadden@gns.cri.nz">p.scadden@gns.cri.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"> >In OpenLayers, you have to set propertyNames in the protocol options<br>
to get this. This is an array of the >names of the fields you want to<br>
have included in the response.<br>
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</div>EXCELLENT! this is the first part of the puzzle. I can use this to get<br>
rid of geometry and other unwanted guff.<br>
<br>
Now to figure out a "select" layer in WMS...<br>
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