read up the mapfile

[Huub Fleuren]

Any form of runtime include  (however super simple) would be greatly 
welcomed.
Huray.

(could it be a candidate for variable substitution)

Regards, Huub



Steve Lime wrote:

>A good bit of the code to do this has already been written. There's a function
>some place in mapfile.c to load the .map file into one big string buffer with the
>intent of parsing it. In fact, we already parse strings in many cases: URL config,
>and expressions.
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>Adding support for an "include" could be done this way. I still wonder about the
>wisdom of doing so at runtime. I guarantee just a simple include won't be enough,
>users will want conditional includes and variable substitution at the very least. So
>I still believe that a pre-processor is the way to go (perhaps with a super simple
>run-time include).
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>Steve
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>>>>Huub Fleuren <hfl at HOME.NL> 08/25/05 7:10 AM >>>
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>Hi
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>A bit in response to the previous message:
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>I was thinking of a way to preprocess the mapfile.
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>Now, the mapfile is read by the lexer character by character, if I 'm 
>not mistaken.
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>If the lexer could read from a strstream instread of the FILE*
>we could support all kinds of includes, like other pieces and bits of 
>mapfiles, classfiles  et cetera.
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>don't correct me if i'm wrong.
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>Regards,Huub
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