server-side SLD support

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

True.

So in order to do this safely, we would need to have the concept of
immutable classes in Mapserver, or not? I.e. classes the user cannot change.

Or are there other solutions?

Best regards,
Bart

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Bart van den Eijnden
OSGIS, Open Source GIS
http://www.osgis.nl


--------- Oorspronkelijk bericht --------
Van: Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at MAPGEARS.COM>
Naar: MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU <MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
Onderwerp: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-DEV] server-side SLD support
Datum: 02/11/06 10:40

> Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:
> &gt; Paul,
> &gt; 
> &gt; the intention of the SLD keyword would be to be used in server-side
WMS
> &gt; implementations, to be used as the default style. 
> &gt; 
> &gt; So I would not recommend using it in Chameleon client MAP files.
> &gt; 
> &gt; Maybe we are putting the scope of this too wide ..... ?
> &gt; 
> 
> Once a feature is out in the wild then users will start using it for all 
> sorts of things that you never expected, and what you recommend them to 
> do or not do won't matter... i.e. even if you recommend to Chameleon 
> users to not use mapfiles that contain SLD refs, some of them will do it 
> either intentionally or by accident... that's why we need to address all 
> those questions now, to avoid making a half-baked feature available that 
> will cause odd side-effects to previously working applications.
> 
> Daniel
> -- 
> Daniel Morissette
> http://www.mapgears.com/
> 
>