[udig-devel] Filter Styling

[Jody Garnett]

Jesse Eichar wrote:
> Hi I think there is a Regular expression that you can create some how 
> as well.  Oh right it is the Like filter.
You are correct, you can also ask some of the property filters to ignore 
case.

Matching case is generally a good thing; this is machine readable data 
you are talking about using here after all, you are trying to be 
exacting when rendering - cleaning up data is a separate step.

Jody
>
> Jesse
>
> On Aug 22, 2007, at 6:13 AM, Andy Cox wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have come across an interesting "feature" in that if you try and 
>> style a
>> layer based on a filter e.g.
>>
>> CompareFilter compareFilter =
>> filterFactory.createCompareFilter(Filter.COMPARE_EQUALS);     
>>     
>> compareFilter.addLeftValue(filterFactory.createAttributeExpression("name")); 
>>
>> compareFilter.addRightValue(filterFactory.createLiteralExpression("Point1")) 
>>
>> ;
>>
>> Then the case of the field name and the attribute value must match 
>> exactly
>> with what appears in the table. This makes it difficult to create 
>> generic
>> renders as you always need to know the case of the field name and 
>> attributes
>> before hand.
>>
>> Is this correct or am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Andy
>>
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