Voting on RFC 9.

[Steve Lime]

I've got an idea that might kill two birds with one stone. We could consider using the MapServer parser. That is, add some functions like commify, uc, lc, substr, replace to the bison grammar. Then one could write full-blown expressions for both labeling and template output. You'd still need an item tag but the format would be an expression similar to what you see with TEXT...

Steve

>>> Tamas Szekeres <szekeres.tamas at FREEMAIL.HU> 01/31/06 5:17 PM >>>
Please consider

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1634

as a potential candidate to RFC9

Tamas



On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:03:15 -0700, Sean Gillies <sgillies at FRII.COM> wrote:

>http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-9/
>
>+0 from me. I think your/our time is better spent making mapscript
>better and using mapscript with existing Perl/Python/PHP templating
>packages, but you know that already. For C, there is Clearsilver
>
>   http://www.clearsilver.net/
>
>Maybe a switch to something like clearsilver would be a good 5.0
>feature.
>
>Sean
>
>On Jan 30, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Steve Lime wrote:
>
>> So far only one +1 (me), and one +0 (Frank). I've got this ready to
>> go =
>> into 4.9 with one more thumbs up. Anyone?
>>
>> I'd like to get it committed and move on to something else.
>>
>> Steve