Changes between Version 30 and Version 31 of MapGuideRfc119

Timestamp:

07/19/11 20:08:59 (14 years ago)

Author:

samwang

Comment:

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MapGuideRfc119

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 Current layer definition schema(2.3.0) already defines an element "URL" of type string in "!VectorLayerDefinition" complex type to store URL information. However, this is quite simple and may far from enough for applications. We can enhance this in the following two aspects:
 
-1. Description of the URL. The URL is just a universal resource locator in some certain formats, but we may want to display to user more readable text. For example, when user finds a building whose name is 'Empore State Building' in a map, instead of showing user a URL directly so that he can jump to that link for more detailed information of the building, we could provide more descriptive hint such like 'Visit URL http://xxx.xx for more details of Empore State Building' which is much more user firendly. This URL Description element can also be a string FDO expression. 
+1. Description of the URL. The URL is just a universal resource locator in some certain formats, but we may want to display to user more readable text. For example, when user finds a building whose name is 'Empore State Building' in a map, instead of showing user a URL directly so that he can jump to that link for more detailed information of the building, we could provide more descriptive hint such like 'Visit URL http://xxx.xx for more details of Empore State Building' which is much more user firendly. URL Description can also be a string FDO expression. 
 
 2. URL override setting. The URL defined in vector layer definition 2.3.0 is a string FDO exprerssion. This can be very flexible but also raises a problem. Consider a scenario that the URL element has been assigned the following FDO expression