(forwarded to the list with permission)
Hi Russell.
Russell Francis:
> sorry to contact you unsolicited but do you know of any working examples where
> you can specialise the SVG foreignObject tag to render XHTML from Batik? I
> have
> the simple word wrap example working but we need the ability to render complex
> HTML documents as SVGs via the Apache FOP project and I thought this might be
> the neatest way to do it. I am looking into the Flying Saucer project and this
> looks like an nice XHTML engine to do the job but I could not find anyone that
> had already integrated the two projects. The only mention of this was on the
> SummerOfCode2008 web site where I found your contact details.
At one point I started looking at integrating Flying Saucer so that it
could be used inside a <foreignObject>, and I had a small amount of
success. I was able to get a (vector) rendering of the XHTML, and for
it to be treated as any other graphical content in the SVG (so you could
transform it, filter it, etc.), but with a number of shortcomings:
* the CSS engines were not integrated, so the XHTML tree did not
inherit properties from the containing SVG,
* modifying the XHTML tree did not result in the graphics updating,
* the XHTML was static, no interaction was supported.
> As an aside we also need Apache FOP to render the new Microsoft Office XML
> formats as well, I have researched how to do this but I was wondering if you
> knew if it had already been done.
I don’t know if that has been done already; I guess asking the fop-users
mailing list would get you a more conclusive answer.
> If neither of these two features have been implemented yet then we would be
> keen to contribute these to the Apache FOP and Batik projects if you wanted.
It’d be great if you could help work on Batik’s <foreignObject> support!
And a converter from Microsoft Office XML to XSL-FO would likely be
appreciated by the FOP folks. I am a little busy until late next week,
but I can dig up my experiments then and pass them on to you, or maybe
create a branch in SVN and you could contribute patches.
PS: do you mind if I forward this on to batik-dev? It may be of
interest to other Batik people, too.
Thanks,
Cameron
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Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/
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