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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > >I'm thinking about the problems of representing graphics with XML. I know > >about PGML, VML, etc., but I want to think about subsets of graphics where > >the computer can completely handle layout. I want to just tell it what > >boxes, lines and labels I want and have it draw them. I don't want to give > >it X and Y coordinates for attachment points, boxes, etc. > > > > Back in grad school I used to use an X-Windows program called grtool that > had a simple text based file format for drawing graphs. It certainly > wasn't XML, but it was extremely useful when I needed to write C code that > chunked out hundreds of pages of graphs for different parameter values. > grtool is probably still out there somewhere. > > That job converted me to the text-based file format religion. It would > have been much harder to do something similar on a Mac or PC using > something like DeltaGraph with its binary file formats. > I was thinking to build a really simple implementation of VML (or some other XML-ish) in Javascript 1.1 using the xbm format (ASCII text) to draw simple shapes on the client side. I got this idea looking at the site http://www.hidaho.com/doodlepad/ The xbm is b/w but is trivial to implement. Any attempt in this direction ? Alberto xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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