[OpenLayers-Users] Problems with large datasets, WFS, alternatives.

[Alessandro Ferrucci]

if I understand your problem you need to "highlight" selected features but
not using WFS, instead using WMS?

If that is the case

This example should do what you are looking for:

http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/a/release-2.10/examples/SLDSelect.html

Regards,
Alessandro Ferrucci

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Phil Scadden <p.scadden at gns.cri.nz> wrote:

>  >In OpenLayers, you have to set propertyNames in the protocol options
> to get this. This is an array of the >names of the fields you want to
> have included in the response.
>
> EXCELLENT! this is the first part of the puzzle. I can use this to get
> rid of geometry and other unwanted guff.
>
> Now to figure out a "select" layer in WMS...
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Alessandro Ferrucci
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