Hi Andrea, thanks for the info, okay, so they do not support option 1, but support option 2 (library mode).
But the SLD which works does not contain a UserLayer but a NamedLayer with a UserStyle. Does Geoserver support library mode? Best regards, Bart > bart...@osgis.nl ha scritto: >> Hi list, >> >> I've justed opened up ticket 2166 [1] with a patch to have >> OpenLayers.Format.SLD support ArcGIS Server. The problem here is that >> ArcGIS server needs the namespaces to be defined on the root node >> currently, and it also cannot work with sld as the default namespace >> only >> (it needs xmlns:sld). After this patch OpenLayers still produces a valid >> SLD XML, and I've verified it still works okay against both Mapserver >> and >> Geoserver. >> >> Would people be generally supportive of including this patch for the >> sake >> of supporting ESRI? I am interested to hear opinions. >> >> Also, something which is a bit strange in their implementation IMHO is >> that one needs to add a <Name> tag to the UserStyle, and one needs to >> use >> this same name in the STYLES parameter of the GetMap request. AFAIK the >> spec says that SLD overrides the LAYERS and STYLES parameter of the >> request. But this has nothing to do with Format.SLD, but is an advice to >> people trying to get SLD to work against ArcGIS Server. > > Hmmm... my understanding is that &sld can work in two ways (in the SLD > 1.0 specification): > - as a layer/styles replacement. In this case you don't specify those > two and your sld is filledn with named/user layers and user styles. > - library mode, which is not very clearly defined, but allows you > treat the sld as a style library. The map will only draw the layers > specified in LAYERS, using the default style in the sld for that > layer if present, the default style of the server otherwise, > and if you specify STYLES, it will look up the style name inside > the correspondent UserLayer definition. As a library, UserLayer > will contain one or more UserStyle definitions, and one of them > can be marked as a default > > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > Andrea Aime > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
