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<document>
  <header>
    <title>SVG DOM API</title>
  </header>

  <body>
    <p>
      The <a href="http://www.w3.org/dom/">Document Object Model</a> (DOM)
      is an API for XML documents. It defines the logical structure of documents and
      the way a document is accessed and manipulated. This page shows how to create
      an SVG document using the DOM API.
    </p>

    <section id="gettingStarted">
      <title>Getting started</title>
      <p>
        The DOM API defines an interface called
        <a class="class" href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/DOMImplementation.html">DOMImplementation</a>,
        which represents the bootstrap of any DOM implementation. The role of
        this class is to bootstrap a particular implementation of the DOM by
        providing a method to create a
        <a class="class" href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/Document.html">Document</a>.
        Then, the concrete <code>Document</code> represents an XML document and
        also acts like a factory for the various DOM objects such as
        <a class="class" href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/Element.html">Element</a>,
        <a class="class" href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/Attr.html">Attr</a>
        and
        <a class="class" href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/Text.html">Text</a>.
      </p>

      <p> 
        How to get an instance of the <code>DOMImplementation</code> interface depends
        on the DOM implementation you are using. In Batik, the DOM implementation is
        located in the package <code>org.apache.batik.dom.svg</code> and the class is
        named
        <a class="class" href="http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/javadoc/org/apache/batik/dom/svg/SVGDOMImplementation.html">SVGDOMImplementation</a>.
        The following example shows how to get a concrete
        <code>DOMImplementation</code> object.
      </p>

      <source>import org.w3c.dom.DOMImplementation;
import org.apache.batik.dom.svg.SVGDOMImplementation;

DOMImplementation impl = SVGDOMImplementation.getDOMImplementation();</source>

      <p> 
        Once you have an instance of a <code>DOMImplementation</code>, you are not
        relying on Batik-specific code any more and ready to use the DOM API.
      </p>

    </section>

    <section id="creating">
      <title>Creating a Document</title>

      <p>
        Using the <code>DOMImplementation</code>, you are now able to create a
        <code>Document</code>. The following example illustrates how to create an SVG
        document. Note that the Batik’s DOM implementation can be
        used to represent either an SVG document fragment or any kind of XML
        document.  Note that by choosing the namespace URI and the local name of
        the root element of SVG, we are creating an SVG document.
      </p>

      <source>import org.apache.batik.dom.svg.SVGDOMImplementation;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;

// We are using a constant available on the SVGDOMImplementation,
// but we could have used "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg".
String svgNS = SVGDOMImplementation.SVG_NAMESPACE_URI;
DOMImplementation impl = SVGDOMImplementation.getDOMImplementation();
<strong>Document doc = impl.createDocument(svgNS, "svg", null);</strong>
      </source>

      <p>
        As we have created an SVG <code>Document</code>, we can cast this document to an
        <a class="class" href="../javadoc/org/w3c/dom/svg/SVGDocument.html">SVGDocument</a>
        (defined in the <code>org.w3c.dom.svg</code> package) if needed.
      </p>

    </section>

    <section id="buildsvgdoc">
      <title>Building an SVG Document</title>

      <p>
        Finally, using the <code>Document</code> object, we are now able to
        construct SVG content. Note that the document created before supports both
        generic XML and SVG. Though the DOM implementation of Batik is an SVG DOM
        implementation, the SVG-specific methods that rely on the document having
        been rendered (particularly geometry related methods, such as
        <a href="../javadoc/org/w3c/dom/svg/SVGLocatable.html#getBBox()">SVGLocatable.getBBox</a>)
        cannot be used at this point.
      </p>
      <p>
        The document can be built using DOM Level 2 Core methods.  The following
        example shows how to create a red rectangle located at (10, 20), with a
        size of (100, 50) placed in a (400, 450) SVG canvas:
      </p>

      <source>
import org.apache.batik.dom.svg.SVGDOMImplementation;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;

DOMImplementation impl = SVGDOMImplementation.getDOMImplementation();
String svgNS = SVGDOMImplementation.SVG_NAMESPACE_URI;
Document doc = impl.createDocument(svgNS, "svg", null);

// Get the root element (the 'svg' element).
<strong>Element svgRoot = doc.getDocumentElement();</strong>

// Set the width and height attributes on the root 'svg' element.
<strong>svgRoot.setAttributeNS(null, "width", "400");</strong>
svgRoot.setAttributeNS(null, "height", "450");

// Create the rectangle.
<strong>Element rectangle = doc.createElementNS(svgNS, "rect");</strong>
rectangle.setAttributeNS(null, "x", "10");
rectangle.setAttributeNS(null, "y", "20");
rectangle.setAttributeNS(null, "width", "100");
rectangle.setAttributeNS(null, "height", "50");
rectangle.setAttributeNS(null, "fill", "red");

// Attach the rectangle to the root 'svg' element.
<strong>svgRoot.appendChild(rectangle);</strong>
      </source>

      <p>
        The example given constructs a document equivalent to parsing the
        following SVG file:
      </p>

      <source><![CDATA[<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="400" height="450">
  <rect x="10" y="20" width="100" height="50" fill="red"/>
</svg>]]></source>

  </section>

  <section id="createdocfromsvgfile">
    <title>Creating a Document from an SVG file</title>

    <p>
      With Batik, you can also create an SVG DOM tree from a URI, an
      <a class="class" href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/io/InputStream.html">InputStream</a>,
      or a
      <a class="class" href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/io/Reader.html">Reader</a>,
      using the
      <a class="class" href="../javadoc/org/apache/batik/dom/util/SAXDocumentFactory.html">SAXSVGDocumentFactory</a>.
      The following example illustrates how to create an SVG document from a
      URI using the <code>SAXSVGDocumentFactory</code> class.
    </p>

    <source>import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.batik.dom.svg.SAXSVGDocumentFactory;
import org.apache.batik.util.XMLResourceDescriptor;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

try {
    String parser = XMLResourceDescriptor.getXMLParserClassName();
    SAXSVGDocumentFactory f = new SAXSVGDocumentFactory(parser);
    String uri = "http://www.example.org/diagram.svg";
    <strong>Document doc = f.createDocument(uri);</strong>
} catch (IOException ex) {
    // ...
}
    </source>

    <p>
      As we have created an SVG <code>Document</code>, we can cast this document to an
      <code>SVGDocument</code> (defined in the <code>org.w3c.dom.svg</code> package)
      if needed.
    </p>
  </section>

  <section id="rendering">
    <title>Rendering an SVG Document</title>

    <p>
      Batik provides several ways to use an SVG DOM tree. Two modules can be
      immediately used to render your SVG document.
    </p>
    <dl>
      <dt>JSVGCanvas</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          The
          <a class="class" href="../javadoc/org/apache/batik/swing/JSVGCanvas.html">JSVGCanvas</a>
          is a Swing component that can display SVG document. A SVG document can
          be specified using a URI or an SVG DOM tree (using the
          <a class="class" href="../javadoc/org/apache/batik/swing/JSVGCanvas.html#setSVGDocument(Document)">setSVGDocument</a>
          method). For futher information about the <code>JSVGCanvas</code>,
          see the <a href="site:swing">Swing components module
            documentation</a>.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt>ImageTranscoder</dt>
      <dd>
        The
        <a class="class" href="../javadoc/org/apache/batik/transcoder/image/ImageTranscoder.html">ImageTranscoder</a>
        is a transcoder that can take a URI, an <code>InputStream</code> or an
        SVG DOM tree and produces a raster image (such JPEG, PNG or TIFF).
        By creating a
        <a class="class" href="../javadoc/org/apache/batik/transcoder/TranscoderInput.html">TranscoderInput</a>
        object with the SVG DOM tree, you will be able to transform your SVG
        content to a raster image. For futher information, see the
        <a href="site:transcoder">transcoder module documentation</a>.
      </dd>
    </dl>

  </section>

</body>
</document>
