[mapserver-dev] Re: MapFile generator?

[Daniel Morissette]

The new XML mapfile encoding might be your best alternative to achieve 
what you are suggesting. You could use your favorite XML library to 
manipulate XML mapfiles, either on the server or on the client:

  http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/XMLMapfiles

Daniel


Mulone wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
> My point is that we need a structure to load, manipulate and generate
> mapfiles similar to an XML/JSON parser.
> Something like:
> 
> mapfile = new Mapfile( path );
> mapfile.getLayer('buildings').setColor( newcolor );
> // change structures
> mapfile.write( new path );
> 
> Probably we don't need to call functions on the server, so I was wondering
> if it is possible to extract a smaller library to do this.
> We could easily write it ourselves, but it would be a bit of a waste of
> time, given that all that logic is already written in mapscript.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -----
> Mulone
> PhD student


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