Florent, On 6/9/2011 9:07 AM, Florent Georges wrote:
In the Oxygen Preferences->"XML / XSLT-FO-XQuery / Custom Engines" page you can define custom XSLT and XQuery processors (which are actually also external command line tools) which are then visible in the drop down processor combos when defining XSLT or XQuery scenarios.
He he, exactly what I meant ;-)
So it should be possible to create a Batik "transformer", which would get SVG as input and output a PNG in its output file, and then use it in a scenario, isn't it?
Well ... part of the goal here (at least in my case) is something that would be available for SVG inputs, but would not otherwise clutter the application or UI. (The use case I have in mind is for users who are not inclined to mess too much with what they see as internals. So I want something really easy to deploy, if it's not already built in.) I know that's a bit of scope creep from the initial problem statement, but c'est la vie. Of the methods suggested so far, wrapping the rasterizer in XSLT/XSL-FO would allow this, since such a transformation could (given the necessary permissions) be set up inside the SVG framework. If frameworks were to support external processes generally, and not only their own suite of transformation scenarios, than the simple command line call (which has the virtue of the most efficient use of resources) could also work this way. Setting up the rasterizer as a (de jure) "transformation engine" is an interesting idea (and a devilish one), but having done that I don't think this option will be as well-hidden from non-SVG input, on which of course the routine will give only errors. For now, I can put the tool into a Project for my client and document how to make it more widely available should they want to do that. (I don't think I'll have them mess with their SVG framework.) Cheers, Wendell -- ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================