Add multipolygon-by-line ST_Split case in documentation

Funded by RT-SITA (CIG 6002233F59)

git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@13691 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee

diff --git a/doc/reference_processing.xml b/doc/reference_processing.xml
index e1805c28478994cf0dddba1f200baf1d583121e4..4533c476df4731b8f3d30f179758da4f3a12a552 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/reference_processing.xml
+++ b/doc/reference_processing.xml
@@ -2871,7 +2871,7 @@ LINESTRING M (5 2 3.40282346638529e+38,3 8 29,6 20 1.5,7 25 49.5,10 10 3.4028234
         <refsection>
             <title>Description</title>
             <para>
-            The function supports splitting a line by (multi)point, (multi)line or (multi)polygon boundary, a polygon by line. The returned geometry is always a collection.
+            The function supports splitting a line by (multi)point, (multi)line or (multi)polygon boundary, a (multi)polygon by line. The returned geometry is always a collection.
             </para>
             
             <para>

diff --git a/liblwgeom/lwgeom_geos_split.c b/liblwgeom/lwgeom_geos_split.c
index 0efea7dff09a2c4c5191bb4e2e6b97a072397dc1..6b3886ad382cd2b3dbe6707b14147c5dc0f78d64 100644 (file)
--- a/liblwgeom/lwgeom_geos_split.c
+++ b/liblwgeom/lwgeom_geos_split.c
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
  *
  **********************************************************************
  *
- * Split polygon by line, line by (multi)line or (multi)polygon boundary,
- * line by point.
+ * Split (multi)polygon by line, line by (multi)line
+ * or (multi)polygon boundary, line by point.
  * Returns at most components as a collection.
  * First element of the collection is always the part which
  * remains after the cut, while the second element is the
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
  * For a line cut by a point the part which remains is the one
  * from start of the line to the cut point.
  *
- *
  * Author: Sandro Santilli <strk@keybit.net>
  *
  * Work done for Faunalia (http://www.faunalia.it) with fundings
@@ -31,6 +30,8 @@
  *
  * [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiSplitPolygonWithLineString
  *
+ * Further evolved for RT-SITA to allow splitting lines by multilines
+ * and (multi)polygon boundaries (CIG 6002233F59)
  *
  **********************************************************************/