| Holds styling information (from a StyleLayerDescriptor document).
This interface is bound to version 1.0 of the SLD specification.
For many of us in geotools this is the reason we came along for the ride - a
pretty picture. For documentation on the use of this class please consult
the SLD 1.0 specification.
We may experiment with our own (or SLD 1.1) ideas but will mark such
experiments for you. This is only an issue of you are considering writing
out these objects for interoptability with other systems.
General stratagy for supporting multiple SLD versions (and experiments):
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These interfaces will reflect the current published specification
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Our implementations will be BIGGER and more capabile then any one
specification
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We cannot defined explicit interfaces tracking each version until we move to
Java 5 (perferably GeoAPI would hold these anyways)
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We can provided javadocs indicating extentions, and isolate these using the
normal java convention: TextSymbolizer and TextSymbolizer2 (In short you
will have to go out of your way to work with a hack or experiment, you
won't depend on one by accident)
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We can use Factories (aka SLD1Factory and SLD1_1Factory and SEFactory) to
support the creation of conformant datastructures. Code (such as user
interfaces) can be parameratized with these factories when they need to
confirm to an exact version supported by an individual service. We hope
that specifications are always adative, and will be forced to throw
unsupported exceptions when functionality is removed from a specification.
author:
Ian Turton, CCG
author:
James Macgill, CCG
author:
Jody Garnett, Refractions Research
version:
SLD 1.0
since:
GeoTools 2.0 |