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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Oops, sorry about the typo below, I meant to say "I know this isn't exactly . . ."</font> </p>
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>>> "Bob Basques" <Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:<br> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">I've approached this topic over the years by having a nice Syntax editor available for MapFiles.  Both VI and UltraEdit have proven to have good syntax templates for highlighting of edited  MAPFILEs.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">I know this is exactly what was being asked about.  But upon further thought, I wonder if a VI script couldn't be put together to do some of this checking, at least in pairing of quotes and END statements.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Just a thought.</font> </p>
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>>> "Lime, Steve D (DNR)" <Steve.Lime@state.mn.us> wrote:<br> </p>
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Shp2img already provides this capability and is more portable than MapScript. I think ideally we'd develop<br>a validator that spits out all errors but that's probably not possible either since many common error states<br>(like a missing END or quote) will trigger a whole bunch of false positives. Best to take it an error at a<br>time for most cases. This might be useful more for between version migration where the mapfile is structurally<br>sound but keywords have changed.<br><br>We could write a dumber version of shp2img that only tries to load the mapfile and report an error but I'm not<br>sure it's worth the effort.<br><br>Steve<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Mincik<br>Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:24 AM<br>To: mapserver-users<br>Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Mapfile verification tool<br><br>> I don't think this will work because the mapfile is read all at once<br>> and parsed into an internal data structure. You can't access it in<br>> mapscript until the parser has read it and the parser will error out on any errors.<br><br>Understand, but i mean only valid/invalid output from test script. If some error will raised - mapfile is invalid, with no other information where otherwise mapfile is OK.<br><br><br>--<br>Ivan Mincik<br>_______________________________________________<br>mapserver-users mailing list<br>mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mapserver-users mailing list<br>mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users</a><br>
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