mapnik-org/mapnik — Issue #425: Have != as an alias for <> in filters
Author: artemp
Created: 2011-10-11 07:54:55+00:00
State: open
Labels: Core_Library

Rationale: <> has to be escaped as <> in XML. This makes it visually less attractive and makes it harder to type unless you resort to pasting it in from another filter.

Having the C-style != as an accepted alias would mean we don't need the entities.