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Posted to users@cocoon.apache.org by Hal Fossa <ha...@tibcofinance.com> on 2000/07/19 18:40:55 UTC
Re: Advice on XML -> PNG Image creation
I am looking for a tool/capability for (or experience of)
converting XML (which is contained in my Cocoon documentation)
into a graphical image representing a nice tree view for
use the in resulting Cocoon pages.
Ideally, this could be invoked as part of the Cocoon generation
step.
Has anyone (e.g. David Herring who raised this question six months
ago) got anything to help me further?
Thanks for any pointers.
-----Original Message-----
From: dherr@badger [mailto:dherr@badger]On Behalf Of David Herring
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 7:36 PM
To: cocoon-users@xml.apache.org
Subject: Advice on XML -> PNG Image creation
Hello,
Has anyone any expericence or advice on transforming XML data into
graphical
images (charts etc).
Obviously the Graphics2d java api can perform the image creation, but
how
would one segragate this
process within a Cocoon driven system.
Thanks in advance,
David Herring
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Re: Advice on XML -> PNG Image creation
Posted by Jeremy Quinn <je...@media.demon.co.uk>.
At 17:40 +0100 19/07/00, Hal Fossa wrote:
>I am looking for a tool/capability for (or experience of)
>converting XML (which is contained in my Cocoon documentation)
>into a graphical image representing a nice tree view for
>use the in resulting Cocoon pages.
>
>Ideally, this could be invoked as part of the Cocoon generation
>step.
>
>Has anyone (e.g. David Herring who raised this question six months
>ago) got anything to help me further?
Well, you can use SVG.
SVG is XML, so a StyleSheet could create the image from your XML content.
Either send the SVG straight to the client or have it converted to JPG or
PNG (never tried this bit, so can't tell you how it's done)
There is a trivial SVG example in the Samples of Cocoon 1.7.5-dev
Making a collapsible/expandable Tree View in SVG could be quite a challenge
however ......
hope this helps
regards Jeremy
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