[Mapserver-users] SLD and mapserver...

[William White]

Hello mapserver enthusiasts,

I am interested in displaying a very simple world political map on my 
global financial markets page 
(http://www.zenfinder.com/finance/globalMarkets.php).  I would like to 
fill specific countries with different colours based upon the percentage 
change of that country's major securities index.
 From what I can gather - I should be able to do this pretty easily 
using SLD, assuming I can find a server with a world politcal map which 
supports SLD for that particular layer.

I found a world political map that appears to have SLD enabled:

http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/cgi-bin/mswms_world?SERVICE=WMS&VeRsIoN=1.1.1&Request=GetMap&LAYERS=WorldPolitical 


but when I pass in my XML doc (see below) it doesn't appear to be 
working.  My syntax may be incorrect or potentially this server does not 
accept this type of SLD?  I am assuming if I download the mapserver 
software, I should be able to render the desired map on my home computer 
but I would much prefer to be able to leverage an existing server. 
Since my requirements are quite simple (I just need to be able to colour 
a world map) - I am hoping there is an existing server which I can 
reference and simply pass in the various style descriptors (of the 
countries that need to be filled in) via the querystring or an xml doc 
referenced in the querystring.

Does anyone know of a server that would allow me to do this/what I'm 
doing wrong with this one?  Any guidance or advice regarding this or 
perhaps a simpler solution would be extremely appreciated!!!

Thanks in advance.

William.

This is the xml doc I'm currently passing in as an SLD.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sld:StyledLayerDescriptor version="1.0.0" 
xmlns:sld="http://www.opengis.net/sld" 
xmlns:ogc="http://www.opengis.net/ogc" 
xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<sld:NamedLayer>
<sld:Name>WorldPolitical</sld:Name>
<sld:UserStyle>
<sld:Name>StyleName1</sld:Name>
<sld:FeatureTypeStyle>
<sld:Rule>
<ogc:Filter>
<ogc:Or>
<ogc:PropertyIsEqualTo>
<ogc:PropertyName>NAME</ogc:PropertyName>
<ogc:Literal>'Brazil'</ogc:Literal>
</ogc:PropertyIsEqualTo>
<ogc:PropertyIsEqualTo>
<ogc:PropertyName>NAME</ogc:PropertyName>
<ogc:Literal>'Canada'</ogc:Literal>
</ogc:PropertyIsEqualTo>
</ogc:Or>
</ogc:Filter>
<sld:PolygonSymbolizer>
<sld:Fill>
<sld:CssParameter name="fill">#FF0000</sld:CssParameter>
<sld:CssParameter name="fill-opacity">1.0</sld:CssParameter>
</sld:Fill>
<sld:Stroke>
<sld:CssParameter name="stroke">#FF0000</sld:CssParameter>
<sld:CssParameter name="stroke-opacity">1.0</sld:CssParameter>
<sld:CssParameter name="stroke-width">1</sld:CssParameter>
<sld:CssParameter name="stroke-linecap">butt</sld:CssParameter>
</sld:Stroke>
</sld:PolygonSymbolizer>
</sld:Rule>
</sld:FeatureTypeStyle>
</sld:UserStyle>
</sld:NamedLayer>
</sld:StyledLayerDescriptor>