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• Not Just Another Pretty Graphics Standard
• SVG Graphics Elements
• SVG Basic Example
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• CSIRO SVG Viewer
• IBM SVGView
• Size Does Matter
• SVG Resources At a Glance

Important Usage Notes

At the time of this writing (late August 1999), Web browsers cannot yet display SVG. (This is likely to change in the fall.) Therefore, to experiment with SVG today, you'll need one or more of the SVG viewers described in the article. The SVG viewers require Java external to your browser, either as the JDK (Java Development Kit) or the JRE (Java Runtime Environment), both of which are available from this JavaSoft Products page. You will also need XML parsers, one from IBM and the other from JavaSoft to run the viewers. (Specific links appear on the appropriate pages.) We've tried to make the setup easy for those of you running Windows by including .bat files in which you'll only have to change a few constants to point to your Java and XML parser installation.

Keep in mind that the name of this article is "Doing it With SVG". It is designed to be interactive. You'll learn a great deal more by trying out each of the things that are suggested, even if it means downloading and installing Java, XML parsers and SVG viewers. (Plan to spend about 3-4 hours more than your normal reading time for these extra-curricular activities.) We recommend that you download our examples in svg1.zip (approx. 1.1 MB) so you can experiment on your own.

However, if your time is more limited, there are ample screenshot links in the article that will give you a good idea of how SVG looks and works without downloading or installing anything. But then you won't be "Doing It With SVG", you'll be "Viewing It".

Depending upon the extent of your XML background, you may find it useful to read the following articles and tutorials before reading the current article.

• XML: Structuring Data for the Web: An Introduction
• Selena Sol's Introduction to XML For Web Developers, part 1: Understanding XML
• part 2: XML Syntax
• part 3: The DTD

1. In my earlier XML articles, we've explored how XML is ideal for representing structured data, we've examined the role of XML in the big picture of the W3C standardization efforts, we've identified a number of XML software products, and we've seen how XML and Java make a "perfect pair". In Doing It With XML, Part 1, we took an XML document instance and generated a DTD, discussed the relative merits of using elements vs. attributes, saw how to associate the DTD with the XML document, learned how to view XML with Internet explorer 5 (with or without the DTD), considered several validation issues, and also took the W3C browser Amaya for a quick spin. In Doing It With XML, Part 2, we focused on several inexpensive tools for editing XML: XML Pro, XML Spy, Xeena, and XML EditorMaker, and how to use CSS (cascading Style Sheets) or XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) to control both the presentation and processing of your XML (especially in IE 5).

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