amend documentation on curved support to include new compound curve in curve polygon...

git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/branches/1.4@4235 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee

diff --git a/doc/using_postgis_dataman.xml b/doc/using_postgis_dataman.xml
index fd51b2cc584b3ffbe62f0ecd785eaa2a2aa0901a..09886845ca417feae3bb0d3e3fae1e023e836921 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/using_postgis_dataman.xml
+++ b/doc/using_postgis_dataman.xml
@@ -210,13 +210,15 @@ geometry
         <listitem>
           <para>CURVEPOLYGON(CIRCULARSTRING(0 0, 4 0, 4 4, 0 4, 0 0),(1 1, 3
           3, 3 1, 1 1))</para>
+                 <para>Example compound curve in a curve polygon:  
+                               CURVEPOLYGON(COMPOUNDCURVE(CIRCULARSTRING(0 0,2 0, 2 1, 2 3, 4 3),(4 3, 4 5, 1 4, 0 0)), 
+                                       CIRCULARSTRING(1.7 1, 1.4 0.4, 1.6 0.4, 1.6 0.5, 1.7 1) )
+                 </para>
           <para>A CURVEPOLYGON is just like a polygon, with an outer ring 
           and zero or more inner rings.  The difference is that a ring can 
           take the form of a circular string, linear string or compound 
           string.</para>
-          <para>This is currently where PostGIS falls down.  Due to the way 
-          compound strings are represented internally, we cannot yet embed 
-          them within curve polygons.</para>
+          <para>As of PostGIS 1.4 PostGIS supports compound curves in a curve polygon.</para>
         </listitem>
 
         <listitem>
@@ -235,7 +237,8 @@ geometry
       </itemizedlist>
 
       <note>
-        <para>Currently, PostGIS cannot support the use of Compound Curves in
+        <para>PostGIS prior to 1.4 does not support compound curves in a curve polygon, but
+                               PostGIS 1.4 and above do support the use of Compound Curves in
         a Curve Polygon.</para>
       </note>