[mapguide-users] How to detect style info for a given layer at a given scale?

[Jackie Ng]

It's best that you have a good understanding of the Layer Definition XML
schema.

Structurally it goes like this:

 [1 - n] VectorScaleRange elements. Check for the matching scale range here
     [0 -1] AreaTypeStyle elements (for basic polygon styles)
        [1 - n] AreaRule elements
     [0 - 1] LineTypeStyle elements (for basic line styles)
        [1 - n] LineRule elements
     [0 - 1] PointTypeStyle elements (for basic point styles)
        [1 - n] PointRule elements
     [0 - 1] CompositeTypeStyle elements (for advanced stylization)
        [1 - n] CompositeRule elements

So to answer your questions:
 - has it a fixed symbol or a theme? A theme as more than 1 rule element.
Assuming you have loaded this XML into a XmlDocument in .net or DOMDocument
in PHP, it's then a case of counting how many child elements from the
Area/Line/Point/CompositeTypeStyle element
 - how many category has the current theme? Same answer as above. Count the
number of child elements
 - which are labels for each category of the current theme? Through the
"Label" element of each rule element.

Hope that helps.

- Jackie



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