Hi all,
I have a question for Batik developers. I have been using a subset of Batik for a simple diagram drawing application, based on a limited subset of SVG. In my project, the CSS engine has proved very useful. I have a suggestion regarding it.
The CSS engine appears to be tightly coupled within Batik, in the sense that it has deep understanding of CSS properties of SVG documents. However, as an XML utility, the CSS engine could stand alone. Applying CSS to an XML document is a general task, not limited to SVG. A standalone CSS engine might be useful for other developers working with XML and CSS, using other XML dialects.
To achieve this, the properties supported by the engine would need to be decoupled, perhaps using some pluggable mechanism. One main dependency in the Batik CSSEngine class appears to be the CSSConstants class, which lists the SVG CSS properties.
Is this a good idea? Is there a roadmap for future Batik development that might have this added?
For my application, the CSS engine is very useful as it is. It limits me to using [a subset of] SVG because of the SVG coupling, but that's not been a problem.
Regards, Rick :-)
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