artemp/mapnik — Issue #70: Ability to set label value manually in TextSymbolizer (rather than have them read from datasource field)
Author: artemp
Created: 2011-10-11 15:55:14+00:00
State: open
Labels: Core_Library

>> what about the static content ? If I just set the name parameter it will refer to a feature
>> attribute. Can I escape that somehow (putting a in a dummy
>> attribute for all features isn't exactly elegant, especially as it makes the datasources
>> language dependant) ?
>
>Very good point! For the time being there's no elegant solution I'm
>afraid. This is something I always wanted to implement - using
>'expressions' (which can be a static string)
>Would you mind submitting ticket to http://trac.mapnik.org and I'll
>implement this asap.

Here it is, then :)