On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Andreas Hocevar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Eric Lemoine wrote: >> I have a general question regarding the Styles Framework. We have >> classes such as OpenLayers.Style, OpenLayers.Filter, OpenLayers.Rule, >> etc. Tell me if I'm wrong but these classes have been built with SLD >> in mind, so they follow the SLD spec. Can we image extending these >> classes and going beyond SLD? Or do we want to strictly stick to SLD? >> > > OpenLayers.Style was designed with the goal represent an SLD UserStyle > as good as possible, same for OpenLayers.Rule. The latter has currently > the shortcoming of allowing only one symbolizer of each type, because of > the symbolizer hash it uses. For OpenLayers 3.0, we should change this > to a symbolizers array. And finally, we have nothing yet to represent a > FeatureTypeStyle. > > OpenLayers.Filter can also be used outside the styles framework, and > represents OGC filters. > > Now to answer your question: Yes, the design goal was to support SLD. > But I don't see a reason why all those classes should not be extended to > support features beyond SLD and OGC filters (although I cannot think of > any right now).
Thanks a lot for your answer Andreas. -- Eric _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
