summary on server-side SLD support

[Steve Lime]

Nope, not easily or probably at all (other SWIG folks correct me if they
think otherwise). That's the downside of an automated wrapper generator.

Steve

>>> Yewondwossen Assefa <assefa at DMSOLUTIONS.CA> 11/07/06 8:34 PM >>>
Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> a lot of discussion, in my opinion the wanted behaviour would be:
> 
> 1) new keyword SLD which can reference a file or url
> 2) classes are loaded into layer but are immutable (cannot be changed,
use a
> flag for this)
> 3) when saving the MAP object, the generated classes are not saved and
only
> the SLD keyword plus its value is saved.
> 
> I think if you link in a style from an external SLD document (in a
Mapscript
> session eg with Chameleon), you want to take into account changes in
this
> SLD document into your map image. That's one of the points of working
with
> an external document for styles.
> 
> Is this also the perception of the others, i.e. can we agree on this?
> 
     One point to clarify : Using php mapscript, we could add tests on 
the different setters functions so the immutable classes would not be 
modified.  Could the same be done in the other mapscript flavors ?


> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> --
> Bart van den Eijnden
> OSGIS, Open Source GIS
> http://www.osgis.nl
> 


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