MS-RFC-35 - Solving the WMS STYLES parameter issue

[Daniel Morissette]

MapServer Dev's,

I have updated MS-RFC-35 
(http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-35) based on what I 
proposed in the exchange we had on the initial RFC draft from Frank a 
little while ago and which seemed to be an acceptable compromise:

"I'd be more in favor of calling the options "pedantic" (with its 
negative connotation) and "permissive", with permissive being the 
default, and for the time being stating in the RFC that STYLES is the 
only parameter that changes behavior in permissive mode... and that 
adding more exceptions in the permissive mode should not be taken 
lightly as this encourages misuse of the specs and bloats the code with 
unnecessary exceptions."

Can you please review the RFC and comment and/or tell us if the new 
approach sounds acceptable to you?

If we can have consensus on this issue then we could vote to adopt the 
RFC, implement the fix and try to release 5.0.1 in the next week or so.

Daniel
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Daniel Morissette
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