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XML Unleashed
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XML Unleashed

by Michael Morrison
December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
992 pages
22h 3m
English
Sams
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Chapter 34. Describing Vector Graphics with VML and SVG

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It isn't too surprising that vector graphics is one particular area of XML that has garnered significant attention. XML is quickly proving itself to be the future of shared file formats in general, and vector graphics is certainly something that would benefit greatly from a common file format. XML offers so many benefits as a vector graphics markup language that no less than three XML vocabularies have been submitted to the W3C to address vector graphics (PGML, VML, and SVG).

This chapter takes a look at vector graphics and the need for an XML vocabulary ...

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