How to join data tables for visualization

[Holger Floerke]

Hi there,

how can I join additional data fields to my shape-file?

There is a shapefile only with "id" and "name" for the shapes. I have
additional data (like population) as a dbf file, I would like to dynamically
join to the shape values and use theese joined values for dividing the
shapes into different classes.

There is a JOIN object mentioned within the mapfile reference, but it's for
query objects only.

Any idea?

HolgeR