mapnik/mapnik — Issue #992: remove "abstract" and "title" from rule and layer classes
Author: springmeyer
Created: 2011-12-12 18:24:38+00:00
State: open

These go back to early SLD, and have never been used internally, nor that I know of by many external tools. We should remove them if they are largely unused to keep things simple and efficient.

The only known tool this will break is the OGCServer, as it allows abstract/title, if set on layers in XML, to be passed through to the GetCapabilities. It is my opinion that WMS specific parameters should be read from a separate document, no the main stylesheet. We should be able to support WMS without having mapnik core know anything about WMS.