Map Builder Preview rendering errors

Question

I am having problems using Map Builder. I have wasted quite a bit of time trying to fix these problems assuming I was doing something wrong, or something was wrong with my data.
Error 1: I create a map using 2 themes. One theme is a geometry theme of topo edge primitives. The other is a topology theme of features built from those primitives. The geometry theme is assigned a red line style. The topology(feature) theme is assigned a blue line style. the geometry theme is listed first, to draw first. I expect to see the red overdrawn by the blue. The preview show red lines. When viewed in Acquis Data Editor, this map displays as expected (blue lines) and when a feature is removed (disassociated from the topo primitive) the underlying primitive shows up as red. When I stop and restart Map Builder, the preview rendering is as expected, blue on top.
Error 2: I create a map using 1 theme. This theme is a geometry theme of topo edge primitives. I assign node and edge styles. When I preview the map, the nodes (only one node per edge) are displayed at the center of the straight edges, at what appears to be mid-distance between the end points of the edges of the shaped edges (not on the edge), and in the center of rings created by edges that have the same start and end node. They look like they are attempting to be what ESRI calls label points. Again, when I view this map in Acquis Data Editor, the nodes show up on the ends of the edges where I usually tend to look for nodes to show up. Stopping and restarting Map Builder does not fix this rendering problem.
Are these known bugs and when can I expect to use the preview button reliably?
Alden

Answer 1

For the red line style, L.EDGE, the xml def is:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<svg height="1in" width="1in">
<desc/>
<g class="line" style="fill:#FF33FF;stroke-width:1.0">
<line class="base"/>
</g>
</svg>
For the blue line style, L.FEATURESTYLE, the xml def is:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<svg height="1in" width="1in">
<desc/>
<g class="line" style="fill:#3366FF;stroke-width:1.0">
<line class="base"/>
</g>
</svg>
For the geometry (edge primitive) theme, TOPO_EDGE, the xml def is:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<styling_rules>
<rule>
<features style="C.FACE"> </features>
</rule>
<rule>
<features style="M.NODE"> </features>
</rule>
<rule>
<features style="L.EDGE"> </features>
</rule>
</styling_rules>
For the topology(feature) theme, GLOBAL, the xml def is:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<styling_rules theme_type="topology" topology_name="MGF_TOPO">
<rule>
<features style="L.Featurestyle"> </features>
</rule>
</styling_rules>
For the base map, TEST2, the xml def is:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<map_definition>
<theme name="TOPO_EDGE"/>
<theme name="GLOBAL"/>
</map_definition>
As I said earlier, this does display blue lines after a restart of MapBuilder but upon first creating this map and themes, the initial display is red lines.
As to error 2: I understand now that Acquis probably does a specialty mapping of metatdata and uses the NODE$ table, applying the style definition for the edge theme (M.NODE) to display them.