Style

References:

Parse SLD

Parser

You can use a GTXML Configuration to parse and encode SLD documents.

To parse an SLD document use the SLDConfiguration:

Configuration config = new SLDConfiguration();
Parser parser = new Parser(config);
StyledLayerDescriptor sld = (StyledLayerDescriptor) parser.parse(inputStream);

Consider the following SLD document:

<StyledLayerDescriptor version="1.0.0"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/sld StyledLayerDescriptor.xsd"
  xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/sld"
  xmlns:ogc="http://www.opengis.net/ogc"
  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

  <NamedLayer>
    <Name>OCEANSEA_1M:Foundation</Name>
    <UserStyle>
       <Name>GEOSYM</Name>
       <IsDefault>1</IsDefault>
       <FeatureTypeStyle>
          <Rule>
             <Name>main</Name>
             <PolygonSymbolizer>
                <Geometry>
                   <ogc:PropertyName>GEOMETRY</ogc:PropertyName>
                </Geometry>
                <Fill>
                   <CssParameter name="fill">#96C3F5</CssParameter>
                </Fill>
             </PolygonSymbolizer>
          </Rule>
       </FeatureTypeStyle>
    </UserStyle>
  </NamedLayer>
</StyledLayerDescriptor>

To parse the document:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.geotools.sld.SLDConfiguration;
import org.geotools.api.style.StyledLayerDescriptor;
import org.geotools.xsd.Configuration;
import org.geotools.xsd.Parser;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
...

//create the parser with the sld configuration
Configuration config = new SLDConfiguration();
Parser parser = new Parser(config);

//the xml instance document above
InputStream xml = ...

//parse
try {
    StyledLayerDescriptor sld = (StyledLayerDescriptor) parser.parse(xml);

} catch (IOException iox) {
  // handle the exception
} catch (SAXException sax) {
  // handle the exception
} catch (ParserConfigurationException px) {
  // handle the exception
}

SLDParser (DOM)

The SLDParser makes use of an in memory DOM data structure. It is well tested and used by uDig and GeoServer.

In addition to working with a DOM it offers a number of other constructors:

  • SLDParser( StyleFactory, fileName )

  • SLDParser( StyleFactory, URL )

  • SLDParser( StyleFactory, File )

  • SLDParser( StyleFactory, InputStream )

  • SLDParser( StyleFactory, Reader )

You can use an SLD parser to directly parse out the full StyleLayerDescriptor data structure:

SLDParser stylereader = new SLDParser(styleFactory, url);
StyledLayerDescriptor sld = stylereader.parseSLD();

Parse a StyleLayerDescriptor from an input stream:

SLDParser stylereader = new SLDParser(styleFactory, inputStream );
StyledLayerDescriptor sld = stylereader.parseSLD();

Or you can skip all of that and extract the defined Style objects as an array:

SLDParser stylereader = new SLDParser( styleFactory, url);
Style styles[] = stylereader.readXML();

This also works for an input stream:

SLDParser stylereader = new SLDParser(styleFactory, inputStream);
Style styles[] = stylereader.readXML();

Encode SLD

Encoder

The same SLDConfiguration can be used for encoding:

Configuration configuration = new SLDConfiguration();
Encoder encoder = new org.geotools.xsd.Encoder( configuration );
encoder.encode( sld, org.geotools.sld.bindings.SLD.STYLEDLAYERDESCRIPTOR, outputStream );

SLDTransformer

We make use of a traditional XML transform idiom to produce XML content quickly. The Transform walks through an existing data structure generating SAX events during the walk.

You can also use a Transformer, the usual warning applies that this is a fast solution that requires careful configuration in order to produce valid output.

Example of SLDTransofrmer:

SLDTransformer transformer = new SLDTransformer();
String xml = transformer.transform( sld );

You can customize the output as well:

FeatureTransformer transform = new FeatureTranformer();

// optional set up
transform.setIndentation(4);
transform.getFeatureNamesapces().declarePrefix("myns","http://somewhere.org");
transform.setSrsName( "EPSG:4326" );

// generate XML
transform.transform( features, output );

Parse SE

The Symbology Encoding specification cuts down a lot of the boiler plate SLD constructs allowing you to focus on FeatureTypeStyle directly:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<FeatureTypeStyle version="1.1.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/se http://www.opengis.net/se/1.1.0/FeatureStyle.xsd" xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/se" xmlns:ogc="http://www.opengis.net/ogc" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  xmlns:oceansea="http://www.myurl.net/oceansea">
	<FeatureTypeName>oceansea:Foundation</FeatureTypeName>
	<Rule>
		<Name>main</Name>
		<PolygonSymbolizer uom="http://www.opengeospatial.org/se/units/pixel">
			<Fill>
				<SvgParameter name="fill">#96C3F5</SvgParameter>
			</Fill>
		</PolygonSymbolizer>
	</Rule>
</FeatureTypeStyle>

It also has a coverage style (which we still represent as a FeatureTypeStyle):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CoverageStyle version="1.1.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/se/1.1.0/FeatureStyle.xsd" xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/se" xmlns:ogc="http://www.opengis.net/ogc" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
	<Rule>
		<Name>ChannelSelection</Name>
		<Description>
			<Title>Gray channel mapping</Title>
		</Description>
		<RasterSymbolizer>
			<ChannelSelection>
				<GrayChannel>
					<SourceChannelName>Band.band1</SourceChannelName>
				</GrayChannel>
			</ChannelSelection>
			<ContrastEnhancement>
				<Normalize/>
			</ContrastEnhancement>
		</RasterSymbolizer>
	</Rule>
</CoverageStyle>

Parser

To parse an SE document use the SEConfiguration:

Configuration config = new SEConfiguration();
Parser parser = new Parser(config);
FeatureTypeStyle style = (FeatureTypeStyle) parser.parse(inputStream);

There is also an SLD 1.1 configuration you can use.

Encode SE

To encode an SE document use the SEConfiguration with the appropriate target.

As an example a feature type style:

Configuration = new SEConfiguration();
Encoder encoder = new org.geotools.xsd.Encoder( configuration );
encoder.encode( style, org.geotools.se.SE.FeatureTypeStyle, outputStream );

Example with a coverage style:

Configuration = new SEConfiguration();
Encoder encoder = new org.geotools.xsd.Encoder( configuration );
encoder.encode( style, org.geotools.se.SE.CoverageStyle, outputStream );

There is also an SLD 1.1 configuration you can use.