My question may be better stated "Whether there is a way to transfer tag
information like <use> and <symbol> from the DOM into a GVT tree?"
Zainab
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Zainab AlMeraj <z.alme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Martin for your idea.
> I don't think that's enough in my case.
>
> What if the symbols were made up of multiple objects?
> I want to be able to recognize later on after processing the GVT whether
> the element was called through a <use> so as to keep the geometric
> representation of the objects rather than just the raw data I would get
> reading the DOM.
> I would also use this information to re-write a manipulated result
> containing the elements to a .svg similar to the input .svg.
>
> I hope this helps,
> Zainab
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Martin J <jacobson.mar...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Zainab,
>>
>> I'm guessing that you want to do what I needed to do: find the
>> bounding box of each symbol as rendered. My code traversed the DOM,
>> and when it found an element that was a <use>, it stored the bounding
>> box, as follows:
>>
>> Element el;
>> // ...
>> String elementTag = el.getNodeName();
>> SVGRect bb = null;
>> if (elementTag.equals("use"))
>> {
>> bb = ((SVGOMUseElement) el).getBBox();
>> // ...
>> }
>>
>> Does this help?
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> On 25 September 2011 16:33, Zainab AlMeraj <z.alme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am a newbie to Batik. I came to it with an task in mind and thought it
>> > would solve my problems. But it turns out it might be more complicated
>> to do
>> > than I expect.
>> >
>> > I want to read in a .svg that extensively uses <symbol> and <use> tags.
>> > This information is fairly accessible from the DOM but I loose all the
>> > geometry
>> > that exists.
>> > Using GVT on the other hand gives me all the geometry but without the
>> > original
>> > tag information.
>> >
>> > So it goes one step too far for what I am in need off.
>> >
>> >
>> > My pitch is to ask whether anyone has worked on this before, or
>> suggested
>> > that
>> > it be implemented but wasn't.
>> > In the archives I have not come across any as of yet (still looking
>> through
>> > them).
>> >
>> > If there is no way to grab this info I may be willing to code it and
>> submit
>> > my
>> > stuff.
>> >
>> > Any guidance or help is appreciated.
>> >
>> > Also forgive me for being too explicit or not explicit enough.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Zainab
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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