I’m an absolutely beginner to Ruby.
But, besides the language itself (which seems quite interesting to
me ) it is importnat to find out what support is available for XML
and in particular for SVG. I served a bit around “Ruby SVG” and my
impression is that there is maybe no active development.
I have to create a lot of technical drawings and charts.
Another point is the renderer and may be in addition an interactive
canvas.
thank you for your suggestion.
Up to today I have created my SVGs out of a data xml by xslt/xpath
2.0. But this was not interactive, as displaying the result took a
renderer.
If I understand your idea right, I could use Inkscape to create all
the shape objects out of my Ruby program.
Does the binding also handle mouse events (e.g. created by mouseup/
down) on an Inksacpe SVG object ?
Can anybody feedback some comment on this.
libxml-ruby is going to handle SVG fine - but low level, without
awareness of
all the nodes’ meanings.
You need to think first of a high-level editor that is already written.
Inkscape, for example, is open-source, and has Ruby bindings. So, IIRC,
does
Google Sketchup.
Then write unit tests for everything you do. I would use XPath in those
tests to
spot-check the SVG contents…