Hi Bob,
YES, by all means do move to XML. I think this would be a very important
step forward (and my first guess is it would be not too complicated, but you
never know...).
I do see how some might be attracted to having an DB storage too, but I
would urge you to always have that as an
Hi Bob and All,
I would support having an interface in mapserver that would provide
low level access to the object hierarchy, like:
typedef struct object_info {
char* name;
void* value;
char* type;
int index;
} objectInfo;
objectInfo* GetNextSubItem(objectInfo* object);
By using this,
All,
We've been pondering some sort of alternative to the Mapfiles for a few years
now. A preferable approach would be something that could be stored in a DB in
some fashion for querying/assembly processes. It seems on the surface like a
DB schema could be developed to handle the MapFile
