[OSM-talk] simplifying mapnik layout definition

[Dave Stubbs]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've never played around with mapnik, but to me it looks like it's
> trying to be an interpreter when it does not have to be. It's rules
> file should be the input to a text preprocessor like M4, CPP , bash or
> whatever this popular this decade. The output of the preprocessor will
> then have a strict format where every parameter is explicitly
> specified.
>


Not entirely sure what you're getting at. But the only thing Mapnik is
trying to interpret here is an XML file defining the styles. Whether
you edit that XML file by hand or jam it through some preprocessor is
entirely up to you.


Dave