Re: Status of connectors for SVG2

Hello again,

Juergen Roethig wrote:
> 
> No, I am not "working with these notions in practice" (in general), I 
> just had one usecase which I solved via an abstract XML syntax 
> tranformed via XSLT to SVG, and then I came up with the idea to use it 
> directly in SVG. Thus the research for connectors' state in SVG and my 
> proposal.
> 
> My usecase is probably similar to OSM data: designing (in my case very 
> simple and rather abstract) street maps, consisting of (mostly) linear 
> segments connecting (mostly) crossings, some of the segments having 
> additional attributes (footpaths, one-way, ... ). In that case, most of 
> the refpoints are used more than once (end point of the former segment 
> as well as start point of the next segment, crosspoints have more than 
> just two uses). In my case, I do not model the segments, but I model the 
> "streets" (a street with a name) and "special ways" (restrictions of 
> parts of streets, i.e. footpaths, one-way-restrictions, ...), both as a 
> sequence of refpoints with special attributes (names, restrictions). But 
> instead of using a complex OSM syntax (and I would have to learn that, 
> in advance), I made my simple syntax for a simple usecase ...
> 
> [...]
> 
> [4] http://jroethig.de/geolog/connector.html

And now, at that link, you might have a look at that usecase as another 
example for the enhanced SVG syntax ... and it even gets automatically 
XSLTransformed to a standard SVG file which is viewable in any decent 
browser ;-)

Have fun!

Juergen Roethig

Received on Friday, 11 July 2014 20:12:18 UTC