Hi!
I am using Batik for sometime now and appreciate it a lot (I am developping a SVG graphic editor). I have a a few questions:
* There is a problem in batik when a document contains an image whose size is 0x0: nothing gets rendered at all.
(http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22074)
Does anyone from the dev team plans to fix this one?
I'll take a look at it (it's a little odd - no error message or anything).
* While the GVT tree is not built, many DOM operations are not possible, particularly those that deal with lengths, as they try to find a unit manager through the GVT subsystem. Would it be possible to fix that?
No, the GVT tree is where all the geometry information is calculated.
* What is the design rationale for having three layers (DOM elements, GVT nodes, and bridges)? Well, I mean why the Bridge layer?
The GVT layer is independent of the SVG DOM and the SVG DOM is independent of the GVT tree. All the cross package dependencies are handled in the Bridge Package.
* Why is it necessary to use a bridge context to retrieve an element from a GVT node? I understand that an element can spawn various GVT node in the case of <define>/<use>, but I thought a GVT node could only refer to one element. (cf BridgeContext.getElement (GraphicsNode)
As I say above the GVT layer is independent of the SVG layer (it in fact has no dependency on XML). You can, at least in theory, create a GVT tree and totally dispose of the source XML document. Also the batik.dom package is independent of GVT it simply defines interfaces that the Bridge implements.
This makes it very clean from an architectural point of view, however it does make it more complex to work with. Also part of the initial rational was that the GVT tree may be used outside the context of SVG - as a generic 'retained store' graphics framework.
Thanks Guillaume
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