You can't put a comment between two <Rule> definition in SLD
If you put a comment between two Rules of the same layer, no more rule are
parsed in this layer.
In this exemple, remove comment to get the Rule with the ElseFilter
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<StyledLayerDescriptor version="1.0.0"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/sld
http://schemas.opengis.net/sld/1.0.0/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>routes</Name>
<UserStyle>
<Title>Publisher</Title>
<FeatureTypeStyle>
<Rule>
<ogc:Filter>
<ogc:PropertyIsEqualTo>
<ogc:PropertyName>EN</ogc:PropertyName>
<ogc:Literal>Highway</ogc:Literal>
</ogc:PropertyIsEqualTo>
</ogc:Filter>
<LineSymbolizer>
<Geometry>
<ogc:PropertyName>center-line</ogc:PropertyName>
</Geometry>
<Stroke>
<CssParameter name="stroke">#ff0000</CssParameter>
<CssParameter name="stroke-width">2.0</CssParameter>
</Stroke>
</LineSymbolizer>
</Rule>
<!-- This comment disable all the following rules -->
<Rule>
<!-- This comment is okay -->
<ElseFilter/>
<LineSymbolizer>
<Geometry>
<ogc:PropertyName>center-line</ogc:PropertyName>
</Geometry>
<Stroke>
<CssParameter name="stroke">#000000</CssParameter>
<CssParameter name="stroke-width">1.0</CssParameter>
</Stroke>
</LineSymbolizer>
</Rule>
</FeatureTypeStyle>
</UserStyle>
</NamedLayer>
</StyledLayerDescriptor>
Note about this XML
Schema validating with XSV 2.7-1 of 2004/04/01 13:40:50
* Target: file:///usr/local/XSV/xsvlog/@5477.1uploaded
(Real name: routes-bug.xml)
* docElt: {http://www.opengis.net/sld}StyledLayerDescriptor
* Validation was strict, starting with type [Anonymous]
* schemaLocs: http://www.opengis.net/sld ->
http://schemas.opengis.net/sld/1.0.0/StyledLayerDescriptor.xsd
* The schema(s) used for schema-validation had
no errors
* No schema-validity problems were found in the target
