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Lebanon condemns "coup" BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah group took control of the Muslim half of Beirut on Friday in what the U.S.-backed governing coalition described as "an armed and bloody coup". <p><a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?a=9pWf6V"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?i=9pWf6V" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=5ClUEH"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=5ClUEH" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=vFBqQh"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=vFBqQh" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=JHk9Yh"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=JHk9Yh" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/286477292" height="1" width="1"/> Olmert defies calls to resign over bribe probe JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert defied a barrage of calls to resign on Friday after he admitted taking cash from an American businessman at the centre of a police inquiry into allegations of bribery. <p><a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?a=JM5y4k"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?i=JM5y4k" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=tYkHCH"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=tYkHCH" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=j92Llh"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=j92Llh" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=UsSnJh"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=UsSnJh" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/286674099" height="1" width="1"/> Mediator Mbeki holds talks with Mugabe on poll crisis HARARE (Reuters) - Mediator and South African leader Thabo Mbeki held talks with President Robert Mugabe on Friday on Zimbabwe's disputed election, officials said, ahead of a possible run-off that has raised concerns of further violence. <p><a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?a=p7YSQq"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?i=p7YSQq" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=V8eYvH"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=V8eYvH" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=wOONlh"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=wOONlh" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=szPyPh"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=szPyPh" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/286690326" height="1" width="1"/> Rocket hits BBC office in Baghdad, no one hurt BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A rocket hit the BBC office in Baghdad on Friday but no one was wounded in the attack, the British broadcaster said. <p><a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?a=8gsksO"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?i=8gsksO" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=s6yYMH"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=s6yYMH" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=jZppuh"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=jZppuh" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=SaF4Ih"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=SaF4Ih" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/286802046" height="1" width="1"/> Austrian Fritzl remanded for a month in incest case ST POELTEN, Austria (Reuters) - An Austrian court on Friday ordered Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and had seven children with her, to be kept in custody for a further month, a court spokesman said. <p><a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?a=jea5Qm"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?i=jea5Qm" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=Nwmm9H"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=Nwmm9H" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=vXpYxh"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=vXpYxh" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=FG1Nlh"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=FG1Nlh" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/286979206" height="1" width="1"/> Big powers say nuclear treaty at risk, cite Iran GENEVA (Reuters) - The five major nuclear-armed powers said on Friday the Non-Proliferation Treaty was under threat and cited Iran's uranium enrichment campaign in a rare joint call for action to shore up the NPT. <p><a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?a=o1nfhQ"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?i=o1nfhQ" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=XsAjxH"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=XsAjxH" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=H7tHjh"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=H7tHjh" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=LdMSuh"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=LdMSuh" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/286766456" height="1" width="1"/> Sri Lanka cafe bomb kills 11 ahead of elections COLOMBO (Reuters) - A bomb went off inside a cafe in eastern Sri Lanka killing at least 11 people on Friday, the military said, a day before the first local elections in the region in two decades. <p><a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?a=TmGd25"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?i=TmGd25" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=xVzEaH"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=xVzEaH" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=lht6Nh"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=lht6Nh" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=oDKUmh"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=oDKUmh" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/286757756" height="1" width="1"/> Spanish reporter shot by foreign soldiers in Haiti MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish journalist Ricardo Ortega was shot dead by foreign soldiers in Haiti in 2004, according to a court order from the Caribbean country, the contents of which were made public by Ortega's family on Friday. <p><a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?a=52NSIL"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?i=52NSIL" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=xjVvRH"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=xjVvRH" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=fTnxnh"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=fTnxnh" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=sKKlTh"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=sKKlTh" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/287025338" height="1" width="1"/>

SLDs (Style Level Descriptors)

Finance Maps uses an XML document known as a Style Level Descriptor (SLD) to instruct Mapserver how to render the map so that different countries get painted different colours depending upon how their financial markets are doing at that point in time. A new XML document is rendered and passed onto mapserver for each request made by your web browser.

Information regarding SLDs and how to use them as part of a WMS request can be found in the SLD How-to guide of the MapServer website.

More fascinating information can be culled from the OpenGIS specification. If you're interested in reading lots of boring, technical documents - you'll love the OpenGIS website. It's great for insomniacs and mapping fiends alike.

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