- From: Stefan Haustein <haustein@kimo.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 11:45:03 +0100
- To: Jon Ferraiolo <jferraio@adobe.com>
- CC: donpark@docuverse.com, xml-dev@xml.org, www-svg@w3.org, "'Arnold, Curt'" <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com>
Jon Ferraiolo wrote: > > We didn't consider the above alternative. Instead, the two main approaches > we looked at were the VML approach (like what SVG has now) and PGML, which > used a "full" XML approach, such as: > > <path> > <moveto x="100" y="200"/> > <curveto x1="133.67" y1="217.00" etc. /> > > The PGML example mapped directly to convenient DOM access and mapped well > with XSLT, but we felt the size of PGML files and the size of the PGML DOM > were unacceptable. It wouldn't help for the DOM size, but couldn't the XML files be compressed by far using WAP Binary XML? My main problem with the <path d="..."/> approach is that there are some path elements like arcs that have no "real" XML equivalent. I can use <line ... /> instead of "l", but there is no element for drawing arcs (AFAIK). Best regards, Stefan -- Stefan Haustein University of Dortmund Computer Science VIII www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de
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