Hi Francis, Thanks for your reply! My decision was based on the fact that there is no such software that does the SVG optimisation! I came by few but all of those failed to do the optimisation.
I have talked with my Prof. at Oxford university who was really interested in this dissertation and actually he is my supervisor for the dissertation. The good part is that, I have two supervisors who supervise me through this dissertation and both of them take part in W3C organisation. I have good knowledge about XML, XSLT and of course SVG. All of which are modules that I have taken through my academic year by both of the professors mentioned above. I have also worked on SVG using XSLT where I tried to optimize SVG paths by converting to relative or absolute, converting lines to horizontal or vertical lines when appropriate, C and Q to S and T shorthands where appropriate, reduce accuracy of path coordinates, simplifying a curve by converting cubic splines to quadratics or lines where appropriate. I used XSLT to do the above since it's a strong language when it is about XML. All the above are a small part of the whole idea I will be covering in my dissertation. Now I will be optimizing all the SVG file rather than paths. Therefore, I think, XSLT will have some limitation when it comes to optimization of the whole SVG file which made me think about Java too. Do you think I would be a good idea to use Java with XSLT to do the job I am aiming at? If not, what alternatives do you think are appropriate? However, I will be coming back here a lot since I think this group will help me a lot  I am started yesterday, after doing a research on the internet where I also tried to find optimization software. The result was that I did not find a real one. Do you know any? Regards, Joseph Merdas --- In [email protected], "Francis Hemsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Joseph, > I don't know what has brought you to your final dissertation, but > you surely must have been blessed buy by the gods of web stuff. > This is a critical subject. To address optimisation, you must have > an intimate understanding of XML and its interface(or lack thereof) > with SVG. > > The basic requirement for optimisation, is the ability to build an > SVG document, on the client, from a compressed XML data file. > > After you have investigated XML files and how they can write SVG > elements, please comeback, and we can have some nice discussions. > > Francis ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
