Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Using Style in conjunction with my .SLD file

[Ian T. <ijt...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:18 AM, ATI<luo...@ho...> wrote:
>
> Oh thanks, much appreciated.
>
>  I 've been skimming the code for a bit and wanted to ask you something. How
> does it know how to pick the road names from the .dbf file? as i could not
> find any piece of code that refers to that.
>

The SLD file (which is converted to a Style object in the code) takes
care of what is drawn, you'll probably need a Line Symbolizer to draw
the roads and a Text Symbolizer to label them.

> Also, inorder to display the road names, do i need to have the .dbf file
> already read into a postgis db?

No - as you will  see in MapViewer it is easy to style and display a
shapefile (really you need to forget about the dbf file - it's just
part of the shapefile).

Ian
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