On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 03:58:53PM +0200, bart...@osgis.nl wrote: > Hi Chris, > > we've already "complained" and they have created bugs for this in their > support system, so at least they have acknowledged that they are doing > something wrong here.
That's all you can hope for :) I don't expect them to change, but at least to know they're ... 'not quite right', perhaps is more polite than 'wrong' :) > But it will probably take them a while to get it fixed so if we can > "patch" OpenLayers in the meantime without breaking anything else that > would be great! Fine by me. -- Chris > Best regards, > Bart > > > On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 02:20:08PM +0200, bart...@osgis.nl wrote: > >> 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. > > > > As long as: > > 1. It continues to work with other popular SLD consumers (seems like it > > should) > > 2. It doesn't greatly complexify the code > > > > I'm generally supportive of making changes to support as many consumers > > as possible. In this case, it seems like if we can, we should also > > complain to ESRI: "XML... you keep using that word. I do not think it > > means what you think it means." > > > > But I think you have to be a customer to complain, so I don't think I > > can be the one to do it. > > > > Regards, > > -- > > Christopher Schmidt > > MetaCarta > > > > -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
