xml-dev - RE: What's wrong with SVG

[Peter Murray-Rust <peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>]

First, Thanks to JonF for taking the trouble to reply to XML-DEV.

At 16:52 06/03/00 -0700, Arnold, Curt wrote:
>Steven Muench also pointed out that it should be possible to build long
attributes in XSLT using <xsl:attributes> with nested <xsl:for-each>'s and
the like.  I'm trying it now, so my appeal to
>difficulties using XSLT to generate SVG probably doesn't hold up.  Mea culpa.

This direction is relatively straightforward. Thus I can take CML examples
from Michael Wright (Henry Rzepa's student) and transform them
algorithmically into SVG with XSLT. Going the other way is not trivially
possible - either it needs an extension function (what would it return? - a
new nodeset?) or hack into the DOM [must confess I haven't looked this in
detail]. My main reason for trying to parse the path data is that I may get
an SVG file depicting something with higher semantics (e.g. chemistry) and
I need to build a DOM where the points in the paths are first class elements.

	P.


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