I noticed a couple things, but am not where I can currently compile/test....
Create the TextElement in the SVG namespace Change ... Element e = doc.createElement("text"); ...to... Element e = doc.createElementNS(svgNS, "text"); ... append the text to the textEl... Change... svgRoot.appendChild(t); ...to... e.appendChild(t); On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Alan Pandit <alan.pan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am attempting to output the contents of a DOM Tree in XML format to > System.out using the SVGGraphics2D class. Essentially, I want to be able > to see what tags I am creating as I perform calls to appendChild(), but > when I execute the code below, I don't see "Hello World" or <text> as I > expect to see. Are the calls to appendChild() supposed to change the > Document object named doc so the changes will be reflected in the streamed > out SVG? > > String svgNS = SVGDOMImplementation.SVG_NAMESPACE_URI; > DOMImplementation impl = > SVGDOMImplementation.getDOMImplementation(); > Document doc = impl.createDocument(svgNS, "svg", null); > > Element svgRoot = doc.getDocumentElement(); > > Element e = doc.createElement("text"); > svgRoot.appendChild(e); > > Text t = doc.createTextNode("Hello World"); > > svgRoot.appendChild(t); > > // Create an instance of the SVG Generator. > SVGGraphics2D svgGenerator = new SVGGraphics2D(doc); > try{ > > > // Finally, stream out SVG to the standard output using > // UTF-8 encoding. > boolean useCSS = true; // we want to use CSS style attributes > Writer out = new OutputStreamWriter(System.out, "UTF-8"); > svgGenerator.stream(out, useCSS); > } > catch(Exception exc) { > > System.out.println(exc+""); > } > > > This is the OUTPUT I get: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN' > 'http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd'> > <svg style="stroke-dasharray:none; shape-rendering:auto; > font-family:'Dialog'; text-rendering:auto; fill-opacity:1; > color-interpolation:auto; color-rendering:auto; font-size:12; fill:black; > stroke:black; image-rendering:auto; stroke-miterlimit:10; > stroke-linecap:square; stroke-linejoin:miter; font-style:normal; > stroke-width:1; stroke-dashoffset:0; font-weight:normal; stroke-opacity:1;" > xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" contentScriptType="text/ecmascript" > preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" xmlns:xlink=" > http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" zoomAndPan="magnify" version="1.0" > contentStyleType="text/css" > ><!--Generated by the Batik Graphics2D SVG Generator--><defs > id="genericDefs"/><g/></svg> > > > Thanks. > > Alan >