Create line charts using SVG and the Batik rasterizer

What it does

• Transforms this...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--<chart xmlns="http://fleabag.org/lineChart"-->
<chart
  debug="false"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://fleabag.org/lineChart file:lineChart.xsd">

  <title>Weather Balloon Tracking</title>

  <series>
    <title>Aquarius</title>
    <datum y="1"/>
    <datum y="3"/>
    <datum y="9"/>
    <datum y="8"/>
    <datum y="7"/>
  </series>

  <axis>
    <y>
      <title>Altitude</title>
    </y>
    <x>
      <title>Days Since Launch</title>
    </x>
  </axis>
  
  <layout>
    <south>
      <legend/>
    </south>
  </layout>

  <style>
    <plotarea>
      <gradient>
        <color offset="0%">skyblue</color>
        <color offset="80%">azure</color>
        <color offset="81%">sienna</color>
        <color offset="82%">wheat</color>
        <color offset="100%">olive</color>
      </gradient>
    </plotarea>
  </style>
</chart>

• Into this...

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More information

• This is based on a clever contribution by John Morrison (see the Batik sources)
• It has been tested on Win2000 and on IBM's z/OS 1.4 mainframe operating system.

• Mainframers with z/OS can download a more familiar distro from CBT File 706

• The rest of us can download it from this wiki svglinecharts-1.2.2.zip (the zip includes an XSLT stylesheet, html doco and a tutorial)

Send feedback to Andrew Armstrong <andrew_armstrong AT IPSUM unwired DOT LOREM DOLOR SIT com AMET DOT au>