[Qgis-user] SLD/SE 1.1 import/export and style builder UI

[Olivier ERTZ]

Dear list,
the fact that SLD/SE 1.1 import/export has been introduced in QGIS is 
great and I would like to share some thoughts.

The QGIS style builder offers some nice Categorized and Graduated user 
interfaces. Given that you build a Graduated style for layer and export 
it to a SLD file, then QGIS encodes the style using a stack of filtered 
rules which is correct to reproduce the rendering. Let's re-import this 
SLD file in QGIS to style the layer. QGIS is able to do it and you get 
the right rendering, BUT the user interface doesn't present the 
Graduated UI of the style builder anymore, rather it presents the 
rule-based UI.

Wouldn't it be relevant to take benefits of SE1.1 Recode and Categorize 
transformation functions which seem to correspond to these Categorized 
and Graduated "cartographic patterns" ?

Regards,
Olivier.

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