<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">mapserver has capability to use SLD to style a layer, by appending sld to request</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">unfortunately there is currently no option to use sld as part of mapfile to style a layer</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">what do you think to add this as a new feature to next version?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">syntax could be something like this:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp5d2c6be9MsoNormal"><span>LAYER</span></p>
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STYLEITEM "sld://mysldfile.xml" # relative path</span></p>
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CLASS</span></p>
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END</span></p>
<p class="ydp5d2c6be9MsoNormal"><span>END</span></p></div>Alternative to introduce it also as embedded SLD, but the mix of ms syntax and xml is not very nice.</div></div></body></html>