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Using SVG as the rendering model for structured and graphically complex web material

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Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Document engineering table of contents

Grenoble, France

SESSION: Document formatting table of contents

Pages: 88 - 91

Year of Publication: 2003

ISBN:1-58113-724-9

Authors

Julius C. Mong	University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
David F. Brailsford	University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

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SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper reports some experiments in using SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), rather than the browser default of (X)HTML/CSS, as a potential Web-based rendering technology, in an attempt to create an approach that integrates the structural and display aspects of a Web document in a single XML-compliant envelope.Although the syntax of SVG is XML based, the semantics of the primitive graphic operations more closely resemble those of page description languages such as PostScript or PDF. The principal usage of SVG, so far, is for inserting complex graphic material into Web pages that are predominantly controlled via (X)HTML and CSS.The conversion of structured and unstructured PDF into SVG is discussed. It is found that unstructured PDF converts into pages of SVG with few problems, but difficulties arise when one attempts to map the structural components of a Tagged PDF into an XML skeleton underlying the corresponding SVG. These difficulties are not fundamentally syntactic; they arise largely because browsers are innately bound to (X)HTML/CSS as their default rendering model. Some suggestions are made for ways in which SVG could be more totally integrated into browser functionality, with the possibility that future browsers might be able to use SVG as their default rendering paradigm.

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	1	W3C Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics 1.2 http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG12/
	2	Tagged PDF - Standard Structure Types PDF Reference (Third Edition) version 1.4 (Chapter 9.7.4), Adobe Systems Incorporated, ISBN 0-201-75839-3, Addison-Wesley, December 2001.
	3	W3C SVG Test Suite http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/
	4	Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic W3C Recommendations 14 January 2003 http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile/
	5	SVG 1.2 - Multiple Pages http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG12/#multipage

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	Alexander J. Macdonald , David F. Brailsford , Steven R. Bagley, Encapsulating and manipulating component object graphics (COGs) using SVG, Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Document engineering, November 02-04, 2005, Bristol, United Kingdom
	Olivier Beaudoux, Event points: annotating XML documents for remote sharing, Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Document engineering, November 02-04, 2005, Bristol, United Kingdom
	Felipe Rech Meneguzzi , Leonardo Luceiro Meirelles , Fernando Tarlá Martins Mano , Joao Batista de Souza Oliveira , Ana Cristina Benso da Silva, Strategies for document optimization in digital publishing, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Document engineering, October 28-30, 2004, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA