Greetings,
In the past two days or so, I just discovered JFreeChart for
creating Excel type graphs in java. Today, I purchased the documentation for
JFreeChart Developers Guide. I did this for several reasons; my main reason
was to see the SVG example. But, I seem to be missing some important piece of
information about SVG and JFreeChart. I followed the simple example and
generated an XML file that would describe how to create a very simple chart.
But the XML file seems to be a complete stand alone file. I need to output
either XML to put in my XSL or just directly put it into my XSL. Then I took a
look at this site http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/dev/fo/embedding.fo.pdf for
embedding the SVG into FOP. However, how would I dynamically utilize that in
FOP? It would seem that I could save the XML of the SVG to a file and require
my XSL to ask for the file from disk. However, I am not seeing what I gain by
doing this because I could have easily just saved the
chart as an jpg image file (<fo:external-graphic height="7.8in"
src="chart.jpg"/>) never utilizing SVG and required my XSL to get the file from
disk. I apologize for any ambiquity, I am just getting my feet wet in XSLT and
FOP and JFreeChart and now SVG. Thank you for your time.
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Doug Dwyer
Software Engineer
"Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence"
