DEF Line Parameters

The following DEF line parameters can be specified for user-defined features. They do not apply to writer-specific feature type names, such as “Placemark” or “Folder”.

DEF line parameters that affect Placemark styling correspond to a single <Style> element that will be created for each feature type. All features with that feature type will have their <styleUrl> element set to refer to the feature type <Style> element. Note: if a given feature already has a kml_style_url attribute, its value will take precedence.

Name

Value

KML21_DOCUMENT_FILENAME

The name of the file that will be used to store all the features of the feature type.

KML21_SORT_BY_ATTRIBUTE

The name of the attribute that will be used to sort features within the folder that corresponds to the feature type. Only applies to user-defined feature types. If unspecified, the order of the features will be in the original arrival order.

KML21_OPACITY

Specifies the opacity of both the fill and pen colors. Valid values are 0 to 1.

KML21_PEN_OPACITY

Specifies the pen opacity. Valid values are 0 to 1.

KML21_FILL_OPACITY

Specifies the fill opacity. Valid values are 0 to 1.

KML21_FILL_COLOR

Specifies the fill color. Valid values are any fme color specification.

KML21_PEN_COLOR

Specifies the pen color. Valid values are any fme color specification.

KML21_INFORMATION_POINT_ICON

Specifies the information point icon to use for each feature.

KML21_ICON_COLOR

Specifies the color for each information point icon. Valid values are any fme color specification.

KML21_LABEL_COLOR

Specifies the label color. Valid values are any fme color specification.

KML21_CREATE_FOLDER_FOR_FEATURE_TYPE Specifies whether or not features of this type should be contained in a folder. If this parameter is set to ‘no’, features of this type will be contained by the top level <Document> node.

In addition, the following DEF line parameters override the corresponding writer directives for the specified feature type:

KML21_ATTR_IN_DESCRIPTION
KML21_HTML_DESCRIPTIONS
KML21_RASTER_MODE
KML21_RASTER_FORMAT
KML21_RASTER_COMPRESSION_LEVEL
KML21_INFORMATION_POINT_ICON
KML21_COPY_ICON