[mapserver-commits] r8654 - trunk/docs/mapfile

[svn at osgeo.org]

Author: jmckenna
Date: 2009-03-07 14:32:34 -0500 (Sat, 07 Mar 2009)
New Revision: 8654

Modified:
   trunk/docs/mapfile/layer.txt
Log:
add missing EXTENT parameter (ticket:2914)

Modified: trunk/docs/mapfile/layer.txt
===================================================================
--- trunk/docs/mapfile/layer.txt	2009-03-07 19:25:21 UTC (rev 8653)
+++ trunk/docs/mapfile/layer.txt	2009-03-07 19:32:34 UTC (rev 8654)
@@ -144,11 +144,17 @@
     Switch to allow MapServer to return data in GML format. Useful when 
     used with WMS GetFeatureInfo operations. "false" by default.
 
+EXTENT [minx] [miny] [maxx] [maxy]
+    The spatial extent of the data. In most cases you will not need 
+    to specify this, but it can be used to avoid the speed cost of having 
+    MapServer compute the extents of the data.  An application can also
+    possibly use this value to override the extents of the map.
+
 :ref:`FEATURE`
     Signals the start of a :ref:`FEATURE` object.
 
 .. _FILTER:
-
+    
 FILTER [string]
     This parameter allows for data specific attribute filtering that is done 
     at the same time spatial filtering is done, but before any CLASS