Subject: Re[2]: Generating SVG From: "Chet Ensign"<chet.ensign@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 99 15:05:57 -0500 |
I think you have a real point here James. This is the gray area where layout issues collide with pure content & that's always been a major problem. However, the example you mention -- org charts -- is one area where I really would like to see XML provide the description & a variety of backend engines do the processing. More immediately to me, one of the areas where I hope to see XML SVG pay off is in the area of forms. I want to be able to render forms and also plug field-type info into them for automation. An XML SVG standard looks very promising in that area. Best regards, /chet ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Generating SVG Author: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > at INTERNET Date: 2/20/1999 4:11 PM Chris Lilley: > I'm not convinced that XSL is a good way to convert something else into > SVG; and I have seen some evidence that it is not. James Clark: >Can you expand on this? It is the sort of thing I would hope to be able >to do in XSL. The current XSL draft is missing many features that I >would expect to see in XSL eventually. Is it just a matter of XSL >lacking some features (such as support for arithmetic and other numeric >operations) or is it something more fundamental that this? I too would like to be able to do this in XSL. But my concern is that you would in effect have to write a formatting engine into your XSL stylesheet. SVG seems to me to be closer to the (more concrete) PDF/PS end of the formatting spectrum than the (more abstract) Flow Object end. It seems much harder to take an XML document representing an org chart and transform it to SVG using XSL than taking an XML document representing a report and transforming it to FOs or HTML. In the former, the stylesheet would have to do all of the layout whereas in the latter, many of the layout decisions are left up to the formatter at the back end. James -- James Tauber / jtauber@xxxxxxxxxxx / www.jtauber.com Associate Researcher, Electronic Commerce Network Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia Full-day XML Tutorial @ WWW8 : http://www8.org/ Maintainer of : www.xmlinfo.com, www.xmlsoftware.com and www.schema.net XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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