mapnik/mapnik — comment on commit 2fa5bf191ac6ea978a2537ad020fca2e5e0bc738
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By springmeyer:

I agree this should be controllable via a runtime parameter. I also don't like how verbose this code is - I simply adapted it from the shapefile plugin's attribute checking, which has grown organically. So, it seems like there are at least three tasks: 1) move this type of checking to its own function, 2) try to reduce verbosity, 3) make runtime controllable.