NAME
SVG::Rasterize::Specification - data structures derived from DTD
VERSION
Version 0.003007
DESCRIPTION
This file was automatically generated using the SVG DTD available under http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11-flat-20030114.dtd.
The data structures are used mainly by SVG::Rasterize::State for validation and processing of the SVG input tree.
ADDITIONS
Datatypes
The datatypes are defined by entities in the DTD, but they all expand to 'CDATA'. SVG::Rasterize makes use of this finer granularity of the DTD by overriding this entity expansion.
Classes
The SVG elements are divided into classes in the DTD. This is used to split the generated data structures into a set of modules. Thus it is possible to load only those parts of the specification that are needed for a specific SVG document.
Additions
Some manual additions are made to the automatically generated data structures. Currently, this is only the xmlns:svg attribute which is set by default by the SVG module. I am not sure if this is against the SVG specification or not. The DTD allows to enable prefixes which then might allow to set this attribute. Therefore, I decided to allow it as well.
INTERFACE
As mentioned above, the data structures are distributed over several modules in order to improve loading time of SVG::Rasterize. The price of this is that the data structures must not be accessed directly. Instead, s set of subroutines handle the access and load the required modules when necessary.
Subroutines offered for Import
Because of the length of the class name SVG::Rasterize::Specification I have decided to offer the subroutines for import. However, to minimize the danger of name clashes and to clearly label them for any reader of the code, the subroutine names are prefixed with 'spec'.
The subroutines throw as few exceptions as possible. The only one is if a necessary specification module cannot be loaded. Besides, the subroutines return undef on bad input. I see this behaviour vindicated by the fact that these subroutines are deeply internal and in the normal flow of the rasterization process the validity of the parameters has already been checked upstream.
All subroutines return undef if one of the parameters is undef or a reference. For the additional behaviour, see below.
spec_is_element
spec_is_element($element_name)Returns 1 if there is an SVG element of name $element_name, 0 otherwise.
spec_has_child
spec_has_child($parent_element_name, $child_element_name)Returns undef if there is no SVG element of name $parent_element_name. Otherwise, returns 1 if the element is allowed to have child elements of name $child_element_name, 0 if it is not allowed.
spec_has_pcdata
spec_has_pcdata($element_name)Returns undef if there is no SVG element of name $element_name. Otherwise, returns 1 if the element is allowed to contain parsed character data (other than white space), 0 if it is not allowed.
spec_has_attribute
spec_has_attribute($element_name, $attribute_name)Returns undef if there is no SVG element of name $element_name. Otherwise, returns 1 if the element is allowed to have an attribute of name $attribute_name, 0 if it is not allowed.
spec_attribute_validation
spec_attribute_validation($element_name)Returns undef if there is no SVG element of name $element_name. Otherwise, returns a HASH reference that can be passed to Params::Validate::validate or Params::Validate::validate_with for validation of an attribute hash.
spec_attribute_hints
spec_attribute_hints($element_name)Returns undef if there is no SVG element of name $element_name. Otherwise, returns a HASH reference with further information about the element's attributes. If an attribute is a color then the color entry of the hash has value 1. If an attribute is a length then the length entry of the hash has value 1.
spec_is_length
spec_is_length($element_name, $attribute_name)Returns undef if there is no SVG element of name $element_name. NB: Because most attributes have no hints only those which have hints are present in the data structure. Therefore it cannot be distinguished if an attribute is no length or if the attribute is not an allowed attribute of the given element at all. In both cases, 0 is returned. If the attribute is a color, 1 is returned.
Only a few attributes change their behaviour depending on their element. However, they exist. To be future safe, both the element name and the attribute name have to be specified.
spec_is_color
spec_is_color($element_name, $attribute_name)As spec_is_length.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The parsing of the SVG DTD in order to generate the data structures in this module was done using XML::DTD by Brendt Wohlberg. Brendt was very responsive and helpful with all issues that arose during the process of solving this task.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Lutz Gehlen, <perl at lutzgehlen.de>
LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2010-2011 Lutz Gehlen.
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