[Geotools-devel] FetaureTypeStyle Immutable

[Jody G. <jod...@gm...>]

Hi Johann; I know we have talked about the matter before. Reading my 
last email and it came across a little too blunt.

What do you think about the idea of making FeatureTypeStyle and below 
(ie the Symbology Encoding Specification) immutable? If you think it can 
be done I would like to see it happen.

I agree with Andrea that being consistent is good. Symbolizer is an 
"easy" place to draw the line at the coding level. I think we kind of 
have to draw the line at the Rules level to be successful; ie a Rule 
captures a Filter and scale range? We don't want that changing mid renderer.

If I keep thinking that way the first logical place to stop is 
FeatureTypeStyle; which is also where the Symbology Encoding 
Specification ended up stopping.

Cheers,
Jody