RE: [svg-developers] Re: Newbie SVG Developer

2005-08-03 Thread Chris Peto
Hi, Just Use Apache Foreign Object Processor (FOP) for svg-pdf, it works great and has svg examples with it. Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Regards Chris Peto Freelance System Development, Resource Solutions Founding Partner, Vectoreal - Germany Mobile: +49 (0) 173

RE: [svg-developers] Re: Newbie SVG Developer

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Birbeck
Chris, If I understand the app that you are describing, an API-like approach would be overkill. All you want to end up with is an SVG file that is passed to a renderer. Generating the SVG from some data source is the kind of thing SVG does without breaking a sweat. A simple architecture would be

RE: [svg-developers] Re: Newbie SVG Developer

2005-08-02 Thread William McKenzie
What sort of c/c++ environment are you using? One option would be to find something like 'kode' (part of debian linux, I believe) that would generate c++ classes or templates from the RelaxNG schema for svg. Those classes could then be used to generate SVG objects. If you are in the .NET

RE: [svg-developers] Re: Newbie SVG Developer

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Birbeck
Hi Raoul, One note: Mark might be right about database+xslt+whatever being simpler (I haven't used xslt yet), but as a proficient C/C++ programmer who is used to working with flat ascii files, this might get you to the point in a shorter time, because you don't have to learn a new

RE: [svg-developers] Re: Newbie SVG Developer

2005-08-02 Thread William McKenzie
Actually, you can do recursion, but overall I would agree that if you want to use some sort of layout logic XSLT is going to be a PITA at best. One half-hearted suggestion: if you're a really experience c++ programmer, rolling a quick command-line java program wouldn't be all that figure out, and