NAME¶
SVG - Perl extension for generating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) documents
VERSION¶
Version 2.51, 30 March, 2012
Refer to SVG::Manual for the complete manual
DESCRIPTION¶
SVG is a 100% Perl module which generates a nested data structure containing the
DOM representation of an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) image. Using SVG, you
can generate SVG objects, embed other SVG instances into it, access the DOM
object, create and access javascript, and generate SMIL animation content.
Refer to SVG::Manual for the complete manual.
AUTHOR¶
Ronan Oger, RO IT Systemms GmbH, cpan@roitsystems.com
CO-MAINTAINER¶
Gabor Szabo
CREDITS¶
I would like to thank the following people for contributing to this module with
patches, testing, suggestions, and other nice tidbits: Peter Wainwright, Ian
Hickson, Adam Schneider, Steve Lihn, Allen Day
SEE ALSO¶
perl(1),SVG,SVG::DOM,SVG::XML,SVG::Element,SVG::Parser, SVG::Manual
SVG::Extension <
http://www.roitsystems.com/> ROASP.com: Serverside SVG
server <
http://www.roitsystems.com/> ROIT Systems: Commercial SVG perl
solutions <
http://www.w3c.org/Graphics/SVG/> SVG at the W3C
Methods¶
SVG provides both explicit and generic element constructor methods. Explicit
generators are generally (with a few exceptions) named for the element they
generate. If a tag method is required for a tag containing hyphens, the method
name replaces the hyphen with an underscore. ie: to generate tag
<column-heading id="new"> you would use method
$svg->column_heading(id=>'new').
All element constructors take a hash of element attributes and options; element
attributes such as 'id' or 'border' are passed by name, while options for the
method (such as the type of an element that supports multiple alternate forms)
are passed preceded by a hyphen, e.g '-type'. Both types may be freely
intermixed; see the "fe" method and code examples througout the
documentation for more examples.
new (constructor)¶
$svg = SVG->new(%attributes)
Creates a new SVG object. Attributes of the document SVG element be passed as an
optional list of key value pairs. Additionally, SVG options (prefixed with a
hyphen) may be set on a per object basis:
Example:
my $svg1 = SVG->new;
my $svg2 = SVG->new(id => 'document_element');
my $svg3 = SVG->new(
-printerror => 1,
-raiseerror => 0,
-indent => ' ',
-elsep => "\n", # element line (vertical) separator
-docroot => 'svg', # default document root element (SVG specification assumes svg). Defaults to 'svg' if undefined
-xml_xlink => 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink', # required by Mozilla's embedded SVG engine
-sysid => 'abc', # optional system identifier
-pubid => "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN", # public identifier default value is "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN" if undefined
-namespace => 'mysvg',
-inline => 1
id => 'document_element',
width => 300,
height => 200,
);
Default SVG options may also be set in the import list. See "EXPORTS"
above for more on the available options.
Furthermore, the following options:
-version
-encoding
-standalone
-namespace
-inline
-pubid (formerly -identifier)
-sysid (standalone)
may also be set in xmlify, overriding any corresponding values set in the
SVG->new declaration
xmlify (alias: to_xml render serialize serialise )¶
$string = $svg->xmlify(%attributes);
Returns xml representation of svg document.
XML Declaration
Name Default Value
-version '1.0'
-encoding 'UTF-8'
-standalone 'yes'
-namespace 'svg' - namespace prefix for elements.
Can also be used in any element method to over-ride
the current namespace prefix. Make sure to have
declared the prefix before using it.
-inline '0' - If '1', then this is an inline document.
-pubid '-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN';
-sysid 'http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd'
perlify ()¶
return the perl code which generates the SVG document as it currently exists.
toperl ()¶
Alias for method
perlify()