Christian, I feel we're approaching an 'agree to disagree', but I'm curious - where are the guidelines suggesting that SLDs should only contain one active style at any scale?
The specification permits multiple FeatureTypeStyle elements for a good reason - so that you can have multiple 'layers' within the resulting image and you can control how they are positioned relative to each other. From the specification (1.1.0): "Note that there is no restriction against a single UserStyle from including multiple FeatureTypeStyles that reference the same FeatureTypeName. This case does not create an exception in the rendering semantics, however, since a map styler is expected to process all FeatureTypeStyles in the order that they appear, regardless, plotting one instance over top of another" This suggests that using FeatureTypeStyle elements to control ordering is in fact part of the standard. The specification even highlights the importance of execution order. Given that I can find no mention of a one active style restriction I assume that this approach is, in fact, convention. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/SLD-drawing-order-tp4948595p4976193.html Sent from the GeoServer - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
