Automated Tree Drawing: XSLT and SVG
Jirka Kosek describes a technique for creating graphics of tree structures from a
simple textual syntax using SVG and XSLT.
Jirka Kosek
Jirka Kosek is the freelance
writer, consultant, trainer, university teacher, open source developer and PhD
student. He has written several books about XML, HTML and PHP. Jirka is a
member of DocBook developers
team, which is developing and improving DSSSL and XSL stylesheets for
formatting DocBook documents.
Articles by this author
Mastering DocBook Indexes
Jirka Kosek explains the ins and outs of constructing document indexes in
DocBook.
XSLT Reflection
Reflection enables a programming language to inspect and modify its own code.
XSLT, being expressed in XML, comes with this built in. This article shows how XSLT
can be
used to process XSLT to solve real problems.
DocBook for Eclipse: Reusing DocBook's Stylesheets
Using a standard documentation vocabulary such as DocBook makes it easy to
integrate your documentation into the Eclipse development platform, as well as many
other
HTML-based help systems. This article shows how to reuse DocBook's XSLT stylesheets
to
achieve this.
Understanding the node-set() Function
In XSLT some surprisingly trivial requirements cannot be expressed in a
straightforward way. This article describes how to overcome these problems by using
the
powerful node-set() extension function.