For completeness (and to cover the simplest solution that I didn't present earlier)....
adding svg:image elements with the xlink:hrefs pointing to the external files would also work. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:45 PM, jonathan wood <jonathanshaww...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks for the additional info Helder. > > Note that even with a use tag, if you want to add the existing svg to a top > level template programatically, you'd still need to follow the prior > instructions with the following modification. Note that this is not the use > case specified by the requester as there is no element reuse in the > originally described scenario. > > - uniquely id the new element > - create a defs element and append the imported node to the defs element. > - create and add a use element with the xlink:href attribute set to > "url(#newnodeid)" > > > 2011/6/22 Helder Magalhães <helder.magalh...@gmail.com> > >> Hi everyone, >> >> > One way to do it...assumes the file was read and placed into a byte >> array by >> > loadMyFile() (your implementation). >> > All fluff and exception handling removed, but the basic sequence is: >> [...] >> >> Apart from this (good) suggestion, note that SVG also has an "import" >> mechanism, namely the 'use' element [1]. Just in case someone missed >> it! ;-) >> >> Cheers, >> Helder >> >> >> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/struct.html#UseElement >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: batik-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: batik-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org >> >> >
