.map within a .map

[Dirk Tilger]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:00:18AM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On 11/8/05, Oliver Ishmael <oliver_ishmael at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > For example, i am developing a mapserver for work and have some of the data
> > at home, but not the raster data for example. To enable me to easily run and
> > edit the mapfile from home, it would be useful if some of this data could be
> > called in a separate mapfile, (which i could comment out as necessary).
> >
> > What is the syntax for calling a .map file from within a .map file.
> 
> You might want to talk to Tamas about the work he did
> to allow another .map to be used as a raster layer.  There
> is some description in:
> 
>   http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1445
> 
> This isn't incorporated into the mainline MapServer at this point
> but it might be if we felt there was a strong enough desire for it.

Wouldn't an include statement in the mapfile do the job headache-free?

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