Hi,
I want to manipulate a SVG document (loaded from a file) using Batik's
SVG DOM api (org.apache.batik.dom.svg).
(1) The sample in Batik's website show that to get a SVGDocument
instance, I have to cast from a org.w3c.dom.Document, which in turn I
obtain from SAXSVGDocumentFactory.
String parser = XMLResourceDescriptor.getXMLParserClassName();
SAXSVGDocumentFactory f = new SAXSVGDocumentFactory(parser);
InputStream is = new FileInputStream("svgdom\\resource\\sample.svg");
Document doc = f.createDocument(null, is);
SVGDocument svgDoc = (SVGDocument)doc;
Is this the most appropriate way ? Can I load a SVG file (into
SVGDocument) without using org.w3c.dom.Document as the medium ?
(2) To navigate the SVG DOM, I started by calling
SVGDocument.getRootElement(), which return a SVGSVGElement. To get the
list of children nodes from this root, I use the inherited
org.w3c.dom.Node.getChildNodes().
NodeList nodeList = svgDoc.getRootElement().getChildNodes();
Is this the right way go get a list of children nodes ? Is there a SVG
DOM specific API for getting the list of children nodes ? Maybe if I
only want to get children that are SVGRect element ?
(3) To know which node represents what SVG element. I use the
inherited org.w3c.dom.Node.getNodeName(), and compare with strings
such as "path", "polyline", etc. Again, is the correct way ? Is there
a SVG DOM api that can achive the same effect without comparing each
strings ? Maybe a .isPath() method, for example.
** Obviously I am new to XML, SVG and Batik. Thanks you in advance for
answering these basic questions :) **
Thanks.
~KEGan
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