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| <header> |
| <title>Batik Glossary</title> |
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| <body> |
| <section id="Bridge"> |
| <title>Bridge</title> |
| <p> |
| A bridge is a class that handles an element in an SVG document, either |
| by constructing a corresponding node in the GVT tree, or by informing |
| the user agent that it has encountered the element. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| |
| <section id="GVT"> |
| <title>GVT (Graphic Vector Toolkit)</title> |
| <p> |
| GVT (Graphic Vector Toolkit) is an object oriented framework that |
| describes complex 2D graphics in terms of a tree of Java objects. GVT |
| is used in Batik to represent how SVG images are to be rendered. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| |
| <section id="SVGDOM"> |
| <title>SVG DOM</title> |
| <p> |
| The SVG DOM (Document Object Model) defines the API that programming |
| languages use to interact with SVG documents. There are different “bindings” |
| of the DOM API for different languages. For example, there is an ECMAScript |
| binding that allows SVG scripts to access or modify SVG documents, for example |
| in reaction to events. There is also a Java binding which allows Java |
| programs to dynamically interact with SVG documents. The Java binding |
| and the ECMAScript binding are both available in Batik. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| |
| <section id="SVGGenerator"> |
| <title>SVG Generator</title> |
| <p> |
| The SVG Generator is a module of Batik that allows Java applications |
| to create SVG content without needing specific knowledge of SVG. Applications |
| doing graphics in Java use an API, embodied by the |
| <code>Graphics2D</code> class, to do all their rendering operations. |
| They use the same code, but different implementations of that API, to |
| render to various outputs such as a screen or a printer. The SVG |
| Generator is another implementation of that API that, instead of |
| drawing to a screen or a printer, generates SVG content. Because it |
| implements the same API as for printing or drawing to the screen, the |
| same code that does screen rendering and printing can be used with the |
| generator to generate SVG content. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| </body> |
| </document> |
