[OSM-talk] simplifying mapnik layout definition

[Andreas Barth]

* Nic Roets (nroets at gmail.com) [080527 17:06]:
> 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.

Feel free to do that - I was biten by m4 already during the
sendmail-decade, so I won't use that. (And if we speak about xml, xslt
is often the answer, but for that to happen I need more profund
understanding of the format than I have now, or someone else take over
who already has that understanding.)


Cheers,
Andi
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