Support attribute bindings within a TEXT expression #3736

Reporter: sdlime
Date: 2011/03/15 - 15:51
Trac URL: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3736
In 5.6 you'd do something like:

TEXT (area is [area])

and with the expression changes in RFC 64 this becomes:

TEXT ("area is" + [area])

For complicated uses this can be onerous. I propose adding attribute binding (e.g. straight substitution) for a string expression, e.g.:

TEXT "area is [area]"

This will make upgrading to 6.0 easier for folks. We'll still reserve the () syntax for true text expressions.

Steve