Dynamic Graphics with SVG and XMLC
Have you ever tried making a dynamic graph with an HTML table, manipulating its width, height, and color attributes, wishing you didn't have to resort to such a kludge? There is now a new W3C-standard XML language for generating high-end graphics.
Scalar Vector Graphics (SVG), is a language for generating rich, two-dimensional graphical content. Because it is written in XML, SVG content can be generated from server-side sources of real-time information, such as diagnostics or e-commerce statistics.
SVG supports three types of graphic objects:
Vector graphic shapes (for example, path of lines and curves)
Images
Text
SVG then gives you the capability to manipulate all these objects, changing their attributes color, ...
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