http://www.xmlelves.com Discussion forum for SVG and XML developers and power user gurus. en Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:21:45 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.xmlelves.com/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.xmlelves.com http://www.xmlelves.com/orkut-1708.html Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:37:55 GMT Hi, This is my first post to the forum, it’s very informative and enjoyable really. I’m curious about Orkut and I wonder what you people... Hi,

This is my first post to the forum, it’s very informative and enjoyable really.

I’m curious about Orkut and I wonder what you people think. As you know Orkut is social networking site operated by Google. It’s less popular than Facebook or Myspace and Twitter. There’s a chance that they can become more popular than Facebook? What do you think? ]]> SVG Questions HanDaN http://www.xmlelves.com/orkut-1708.html http://www.xmlelves.com/without-xml-sitemap-does-your-site-still-get-indexed-1707.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:27:45 GMT This weekend I was doing a little housekeeping on some of my domains and hosting accounts and decided to test and see if it was possible to get a... This weekend I was doing a little housekeeping on some of my domains and hosting accounts and decided to test and see if it was possible to get a website indexed using XML Sitemaps and no external links.Since some piano player in New Jersey owns the domain MichaelGray.com I had a few options but the [...]

Click here to read the full news item ]]> XML Blogs and News XML Pro News http://www.xmlelves.com/without-xml-sitemap-does-your-site-still-get-indexed-1707.html http://www.xmlelves.com/mark-logic-has-released-version-4-1-their-namesake-xml-database-linux-solaris-1706.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:27:45 GMT Mark Logic has released version 4.1 of their namesake XML database for Linux, Solaris, and Windows. New features in 4.1 include: More... *Read the... Mark Logic has released version 4.1 of their namesake XML database for Linux, Solaris, and Windows. New features in 4.1 include: More...

Read the Complete News Item on Cafe con Leche... ]]> XML Blogs and News Cafe con Leche http://www.xmlelves.com/mark-logic-has-released-version-4-1-their-namesake-xml-database-linux-solaris-1706.html http://www.xmlelves.com/norm-walsh-has-posted-version-0-9-12-calabash-open-source-xproc-implementation-1705.html Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:26:31 GMT Norm Walsh has posted version 0.9.12 of Calabash, an open source XProc implementation written in Java. This release fixes bugs and adds a... Norm Walsh has posted version 0.9.12 of Calabash, an open source XProc implementation written in Java. This release fixes bugs and adds a non-standard â??general values extensionâ??. Java 5 or later is required. Calabash is published under the GNU General Public License Version 2.0.

Read the Complete News Item on Cafe con Leche... ]]> XML Blogs and News Cafe con Leche http://www.xmlelves.com/norm-walsh-has-posted-version-0-9-12-calabash-open-source-xproc-implementation-1705.html http://www.xmlelves.com/oracle-has-released-final-version-java-specification-request-jsr-225-xquery-1704.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:31:24 GMT Oracle has released the final version of Java Specification Request (JSR) 225, XQuery API for Javaâ?¢ (XQJ). There's also a reference implementation and technical compatibility kit. As JDBC is to SQL, XQJ is to XQuery. More...

Read the Complete News Item on Cafe con Leche... ]]> XML Blogs and News Cafe con Leche http://www.xmlelves.com/oracle-has-released-final-version-java-specification-request-jsr-225-xquery-1704.html http://www.xmlelves.com/wolfgang-meier-has-released-exist-1-2-6-a-1703.html Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:44:36 GMT Wolfgang Meier has released eXist 1.2.6: More... *Read the Complete News Item on Cafe con Leche...*... Wolfgang Meier has released eXist 1.2.6: More...

Read the Complete News Item on Cafe con Leche... ]]> XML Blogs and News Cafe con Leche http://www.xmlelves.com/wolfgang-meier-has-released-exist-1-2-6-a-1703.html http://www.xmlelves.com/xml-based-business-process-management-1702.html Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:41:04 GMT I got an update on Vitria for the first time in a few years a little while back. Vitria started back in 1994 with Enterprise Application Integration... I got an update on Vitria for the first time in a few years a little while back. Vitria started back in 1994 with Enterprise Application Integration capabilities and has added Business Process Management, Business Activity Monitoring and ultimately Business Event Management/Complex Event Processing functionality over the last few years. They are using “Operational Intelligence” [...]

Click here to read the full news item ]]> XML Blogs and News XML Pro News http://www.xmlelves.com/xml-based-business-process-management-1702.html http://www.xmlelves.com/could-really-7-years-yes-could-1701.html Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:41:04 GMT Could it really be 7 years? Yes, it could. back from the dead after 7 years as a last call working draft, the W3C CSS Working Group has posted a new... Could it really be 7 years? Yes, it could. back from the dead after 7 years as a last call working draft, the W3C CSS Working Group has posted a new working draft of CSS Fonts Module Level 3. Described properties include: More...

Read the Complete News Item on Cafe con Leche... ]]> XML Blogs and News Cafe con Leche http://www.xmlelves.com/could-really-7-years-yes-could-1701.html http://www.xmlelves.com/first-release-candidate-firefox-3-5-out-though-youll-need-get-au-1700.html Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:59:31 GMT The first release candidate of Firefox 3.5 is out; though you'll need to get it by auto-updating 3.5 beta 4. It's ugly as sin, breaks the back button, breaks the scrollbars, and still hasn't fixed this AppleScript bug. To add insult to injury the feedback page uses a pointless, illegible CAPTCHA: More...

Read the Complete News Item on Cafe con Leche... ]]> XML Blogs and News Cafe con Leche http://www.xmlelves.com/first-release-candidate-firefox-3-5-out-though-youll-need-get-au-1700.html http://www.xmlelves.com/how-locate-g-element-1699.html Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:04:30 GMT Howdy y'all
this is my first post so forgive me if this has been asked before. I have a project where I am receiving svg files with nested g elements. I need to be able to scale those elements programatically with ECMA. The end result is an html page with an embedded svg object with the g element scaled up or down as needed. There is also a top level viewport defined on the SVG that encompasses the entire SVG for screen scaling in the browser. My problem comes when I try to scale the g element in place.

I think I undstand the concept to make this happen, but the implementation is proving a little more difficult. So below is how I am going about it.

find x y coordinates of g element by calling g.getCTM() and using .e and .f as X and Y respectively
so

matrix=g.getCTM()
x=matrix.e
y=matrix.f

find x y coordinates of the viewport element by calling
farthestviewportelement= g.GetFarthestViewportElement

(tried this with svgroot element as well with identical results)

and then calling
matrix = farthestviewportelement.getCTM()
x1=matrix.e
y1=matrix.f

so I end up with

xlocation of g element I'm trying to find = (x+x1)
ylocation of g element I'm trying to find = (y+y1)

create the offset for my transform to the origin as follows
offset.x= xlocation - (xlocation*scalefactor)
offset.y= ylocation -(ylocation*scalefactor)

and then set the new transform on the g element

newtransform= transform(offset.x offset.y) scale(scalefactor) transform(-offset.x -offset.y)

The problem is that this works out to be close to correct, but not exactly right. Each time the g element ends up slightly out of place when scaled. In that it doesn't scale exactly around the center of the object. and of course when I reset the scale to its original value it's also out of place.

Does anyone have any ideas or examples I can look at to get this to work accurately . Close isn't good enough in this situation.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Mr Johnathan Bravo ]]> SVG Questions MrJohnBravo http://www.xmlelves.com/how-locate-g-element-1699.html http://www.xmlelves.com/michael-kay-has-released-version-9-1-0-7-saxon-his-xslt-2-0-xquery-processor-1698.html Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:38:01 GMT Michael Kay has released version 9.1.0.7 of Saxon, his XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor for Java and .NET. This is a bug fix release. More... *Read... Michael Kay has released version 9.1.0.7 of Saxon, his XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor for Java and .NET. This is a bug fix release. More...

Read the Complete News Item on Cafe con Leche... ]]> XML Blogs and News Cafe con Leche http://www.xmlelves.com/michael-kay-has-released-version-9-1-0-7-saxon-his-xslt-2-0-xquery-processor-1698.html http://www.xmlelves.com/m-gateway-developments-has-released-m-db-x-xpath-based-xml-database-non-re-1697.html Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:32:13 GMT M/Gateway Developments has released M/DB:X, an XPath-based XML Database with a non-RESTful HTTP interface based on DOM. There doesn't seem to be any support for queries across documents--you have to know the ID of the document you're querying--so it doesn't really replace a good XQuery database. There might be some use cases for this I'm ot seeing right now, but in general I think most projects would be better served by a traditional XQuery database such as eXist instead. M/DB:X is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3.

Read the Complete News Item on Cafe con Leche... ]]> XML Blogs and News Cafe con Leche http://www.xmlelves.com/m-gateway-developments-has-released-m-db-x-xpath-based-xml-database-non-re-1697.html http://www.xmlelves.com/bing-versus-google-1696.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:37:25 GMT Hello, I just registered this forum while surfing and I’m curious about what you think about Bing. According to some news it already started to... Hello,

I just registered this forum while surfing and I’m curious about what you think about Bing.
According to some news it already started to overtake Yahoo. But it seems to me they can’t beat Google. I think more creative ideas and some vision is needed to overtake Google.

Besides of that there’s adsense and adword industry. Google is creative and established firm, Bing brings nothing new to us.

If Google creates linux based operating system, maybe they can overtake Microsoft? ]]> XML Blogs and News The-Stifler http://www.xmlelves.com/bing-versus-google-1696.html http://www.xmlelves.com/open-standards-no-silver-bullet-1695.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:41:58 GMT A new academic paper looking at running code and open standard says "A running code requirement would have led Massachusetts to defer adopting ODF"

Read the full news item. ]]> XML Blogs and News XML.com http://www.xmlelves.com/open-standards-no-silver-bullet-1695.html http://www.xmlelves.com/groklaw-message-1694.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:41:58 GMT Waiting on this wintery Sydney day for my flatmate's Chinese roast pork knuckle with bamboo to cook, I thought I'd check up on a suspicion that had formed in my mind: had Growlaw ever published anything on OOXML/ODF recently that was not just Big Blue's message of the week?

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