Here is the defs
<defs id='defs'>
<path id="templateTextPathDef" d=""> //any change here affects cloned
node position
</defs>
The ecmascript function does following
function updateVisualization()
{
//some code initializations etc...
var templateTextPathDef = document.getElementById('templateTextPathDef');
//create id
var textpathDef = templateTextPathDef.cloneNode(true);
textpathDef.setAttribute('id',textPathDefId);
textpathDef.setAttribute('d',new_textpath);
defs.appendChild(textpathDef);
//use textpath found through new id
itemLabelTextPath.setAttribute('xlink:href','#'+textPathDefId);
itemLabelTextPath.appendChild(document.createTextNode(labelText));
itemLabelTextView.appendChild(itemLabelTextPath);
visualization.appendChild(itemLabelTextView);
}
I am using 'true', however making shallow copy didn't help either.
Thanks
Nirmesh.
-----Original Message-----
From: Helder Magalhães [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 7:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: textpath <path> clone affects text positioning?
> FireFox and Renesis player seem to put the text in correct place, however
> batik svg viewer seems to somehow also use the 'd' defined in the template
> from where I clone the <path> element so the text keeps changing whenever I
> change the 'd' value in the 'template' <path>.
>
> I need to try to make the svg behave same in applet and the browsers.
As always, creating and attaching a reduced test case [1] to the
message may help receiving more and more valuable feedback. (For this
case, apparently a single SVG file containing a script snippet and
target path elements will do the trick.)
Just a though: are you deep cloning the element (i.e.,
"cloneNode(true)" [2])?. If not, then it is Firefox and Renesis who
may be suffering from issues, as non-deep copies of DOM subtrees
should act as "use" elements, that is, when you manipulate a non-deep
cloned element, the referenced element is the one who is actually
changed.
Hope this helps,
Helder Magalhães
[1] http://webkit.org/quality/reduction.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-3A0ED0A4
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