[mapserver-users] Re: Styling a mapfile with SLD?

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

On 02/06/2010 9:01 AM, Rahkonen Jukka wrote:
> Yewondwossen Assefa wrote:
>
>    
>> On 02/06/2010 2:39 AM, paalkr wrote:
>>      
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Thanks! I really don't understand how that poorly formatted
>>>        
>> SLD slipped
>>      
>>> trough the oxygen XML editor, obviously there are many
>>>        
>> close-tags that
>>      
>>> misses the backslash.
>>>
>>> Do you know if there is a ticket regarding the lack of
>>>        
>> error messages when
>>      
>>> MapServer fails to either pick up or parse a SLD document?
>>>        
>> If not I think
>>      
>>> that I will write one, and encourage one of my colleagues
>>>        
>> to have a look at
>>      
>>> the source and maybe write a patch for it.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>    There is an ol one
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/1471 that I
>> just updated. The errors are trapped but at this point we let the WMS
>> request succeed without the SLD. I believe the correct way
>> would be to
>> return an exception.
>>      
>
> This needs some consideration.  Think about an end user who is using
> somew ready made application which is set to get styles from an external
> SLD.  Now if this SLD gets broken, which would you prefer as an user: a
> correct exception without a map, or a map which may have wrong styling?
> I would take the map.
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>
>    
I guess it is debatable. I have not seen something in the specs re. this 
issue. I will send a note to wms-dev list at OGC to see if there is 
something in the specs that deals with this issue.

best regards,


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