----- Original Message ----- From: <ronan@...543...> To: <svg-developers@...226...>; <www-svg@...157...>; <svg-coders@...544...>; <svg-mobile@...226...> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:15 AM Subject: [SVG And Perl Update] Strong SVG support and gaining strength

Hi all,

Perl's use as a language for generating SVG growing.

Wheras in 2001 there were two SVG related modules on CPAN, there are not over 150,

most of which have been maintained and updated within the last 12 months...

On CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, there are more than 150 tools that deal with SVG content:

Note: Distributions are released bundles aimed at a specific task, and modules are specific libraries which are part of a distribution.

Perl's chief strength as a language is that it is easily implemented, is ubiquitous (100% of Linux and Unix servers and workstations come with Perl installed and Perl runs on 100% of internet-ready servers), and its very strong developer community.

Here is a list of open-sourced Perl distributions and modules available free of charge through the CPAN Perl repository.

PERL DISTRIBUTIONS WHICH DEAL IN SOME WAY WITH SVG CONTENT:

http://search.cpan.org/search?m=dist&q=SVG&s=1&n=50

SVG Perl extension for generating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) documents SVG-2.29 - 26 Sep 2004 - Ronan Oger

SVG-GD SVG-GD-0.07 - 14 Nov 2003 - Ronan Oger

SVG-Graph Visualize your data in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG-Metadata Perl module to capture metadata info about an SVG file SVG-Metadata-0.15 - 11 Aug 2004 - Bryce Harrington

SVG-Parser XML Parser for SVG documents SVG-Parser-0.97 - 29 Apr 2002 - Peter Wainwright

SVG-Plot a simple module to take one or more sets of x,y points and plot them on a plane SVG-Plot-0.06 - 26 Aug 2003 - Jo Walsh

svg-svg2zinc svg-svg2zinc-0.10 - 06 May 2004 - Christophe Mertz

SVG-TT-Graph Base object for generating SVG Graphs SVG-TT-Graph-0.06 - 15 Dec 2003 - Leo Lapworth

GD-SVG Seamlessly enable SVG output from scripts written using GD GD-SVG-0.25 - 07 Jan 2004 - Todd Harris

XML-Generator-SVG-ShapeFile Generate SAX2 events for an SVG rendering of an ESRI shapefile. XML-Generator-SVG-ShapeFile-0.2 - 21 Aug 2004 - Aaron Straup Cope

SVGGraph Perl extension for creating SVG Graphs / Diagrams / Charts / Plots. SVGGraph-0.07 - 28 Nov 2002 - Teun van Eijsden

epd2svg epd2svg-1.0 - 23 Oct 2000 - SANFACE Sofware

SVGGraph-Pie Perl extension for Pie as SVG SVGGraph-Pie-0.05 - 27 Jul 2003 - Tsukui Akihiro

svg2zinc-perl svg2zinc-perl_0.9 - 30 Oct 2003 - Christophe Mertz

Games-Go-SGF2misc-SVG Package to simplify SGF game rendering using Image::LibrSVG Games-Go-SGF2misc-SVG-1.00 - 10 May 2004 - Orien Vandenbergh

Gnome2-Rsvg Perl interface to the RSVG library Gnome2-Rsvg-0.03 - 11 Sep 2004 - Torsten Schönfeld

Image-LibRSVG Image-LibRSVG-0.04 - 19 Aug 2004 - Tom Schindl

Linux-Svgalib Object Oriented Perl interface to the svgalib graphics library Linux-Svgalib-1.2 - 11 Apr 2001 - Jonathan Stowe

XML-LibRSVG Interface to gnome's librsvg XML-LibRSVG-0.01 - 30 Oct 2001 - Matt Sergeant

Apache-AxKit-Language-Svg2AnyFormat SVG Serializer Apache-AxKit-Language-Svg2AnyFormat-0.06 - 17 May 2004 - Tom Schindl

PERL MODULES WHICH DEAL IN SOME WAY WITH SVG CONTENT:

http://search.cpan.org/search?m=module&q=SVG&s=1&n=100

SVG Perl extension for generating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) documents SVG-2.29 - 26 Sep 2004 - Ronan Oger

SVG::DOM A library of DOM (Document Object Model) methods for SVG objects. SVG-2.29 - 26 Sep 2004 - Ronan Oger

SVG::Element Generate the element bits for SVG.pm SVG-2.29 - 26 Sep 2004 - Ronan Oger

SVG::Extension SVG-2.29 - 26 Sep 2004 - Ronan Oger

SVG::GD SVG-GD-0.07 - 14 Nov 2003 - Ronan Oger

SVG::Graph Visualize your data in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Manual SVG-2.29 - 26 Sep 2004 - Ronan Oger

SVG::Metadata Perl module to capture metadata info about an SVG file SVG-Metadata-0.15 - 11 Aug 2004 - Bryce Harrington

SVG::Parser XML Parser for SVG documents SVG-Parser-0.97 - 29 Apr 2002 - Peter Wainwright

SVG::Plot a simple module to take one or more sets of x,y points and plot them on a plane SVG-Plot-0.06 - 26 Aug 2003 - Jo Walsh

SVG::SVG2zinc a module to display or convert svg files in scripts, classes, images... svg-svg2zinc-0.10 - 06 May 2004 - Christophe Mertz

SVG::Utils SVG-1.13 - 28 Oct 2001 - Ronan Oger

SVG::XML Handle the XML generation bits for SVG.pm SVG-2.29 - 26 Sep 2004 - Ronan Oger

SVG::Graph::Data SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Graph::File SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Graph::Frame SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Graph::Glyph SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Parser::Base SVG-Parser-0.97 - 29 Apr 2002 - Peter Wainwright

SVG::Parser::Expat XML Expat Parser for SVG documents SVG-Parser-0.97 - 29 Apr 2002 - Peter Wainwright

SVG::Parser::SAX XML SAX Parser for SVG documents SVG-Parser-0.97 - 29 Apr 2002 - Peter Wainwright

SVG::SVG2zinc::Backend svg-svg2zinc-0.10 - 06 May 2004 - Christophe Mertz

SVG::SVG2zinc::Conversions svg-svg2zinc-0.10 - 06 May 2004 - Christophe Mertz

SVG::TT::Graph Base object for generating SVG Graphs SVG-TT-Graph-0.06 - 15 Dec 2003 - Leo Lapworth

SVG::Graph::Data::Datum SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Graph::Data::Node SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Graph::Data::Tree SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Graph::Glyph::axis SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Graph::Glyph::bar SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Graph::Glyph::barflex SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Graph::Glyph::bezier SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Graph::Glyph::bubble SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Graph::Glyph::heatmap SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Graph::Glyph::line SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Graph::Glyph::pictogram SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Graph::Glyph::scatter SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Graph::Glyph::tree SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Graph::Glyph::wedge SVG-Graph-0.01 - 27 Nov 2003 - Allen Day

SVG::Parser::SAX::Handler SAX handler class for SVG documents SVG-Parser-0.97 - 29 Apr 2002 - Peter Wainwright

SVG::SVG2zinc::Backend::Display svg-svg2zinc-0.10 - 06 May 2004 - Christophe Mertz

SVG::SVG2zinc::Backend::Exec svg-svg2zinc-0.06 - 18 Sep 2003 - Christophe Mertz

SVG::SVG2zinc::Backend::Image svg-svg2zinc-0.10 - 06 May 2004 - Christophe Mertz

SVG::SVG2zinc::Backend::PerlClass svg-svg2zinc-0.10 - 06 May 2004 - Christophe Mertz

SVG::SVG2zinc::Backend::PerlModule svg-svg2zinc-0.06 - 18 Sep 2003 - Christophe Mertz

SVG::SVG2zinc::Backend::PerlScript svg-svg2zinc-0.10 - 06 May 2004 - Christophe Mertz

SVG::SVG2zinc::Backend::Print svg-svg2zinc-0.10 - 06 May 2004 - Christophe Mertz

SVG::SVG2zinc::Backend::Tcl svg-svg2zinc-0.10 - 06 May 2004 - Christophe Mertz

SVG::SVG2zinc::Backend::TclScript svg-svg2zinc-0.10 - 06 May 2004 - Christophe Mertz

SVG::TT::Graph::Bar Create presentation quality SVG bar graphs easily SVG-TT-Graph-0.06 - 15 Dec 2003 - Leo Lapworth

SVG::TT::Graph::BarHorizontal Create presentation quality SVG horitonzal bar graphs easily SVG-TT-Graph-0.06 - 15 Dec 2003 - Leo Lapworth

SVG::TT::Graph::BarLine SVG-TT-Graph-0.06 - 15 Dec 2003 - Leo Lapworth

SVG::TT::Graph::Line Create presentation quality SVG line graphs easily SVG-TT-Graph-0.06 - 15 Dec 2003 - Leo Lapworth

SVG::TT::Graph::Pie Create presentation quality SVG pie graphs easily SVG-TT-Graph-0.06 - 15 Dec 2003 - Leo Lapworth

SVG::TT::Graph::TimeSeries Create presentation quality SVG line graphs of time series easily SVG-TT-Graph-0.06 - 15 Dec 2003 - Leo Lapworth

GD::SVG Seamlessly enable SVG output from scripts written using GD GD-SVG-0.25 - 07 Jan 2004 - Todd Harris

ConvertSVG FigAnim-0.1 - 24 Jun 2004 - FigAnim

SVGExtension svg-svg2zinc-0.10 - 06 May 2004 - Christophe Mertz

SVGGraph Perl extension for creating SVG Graphs / Diagrams / Charts / Plots. SVGGraph-0.07 - 28 Nov 2002 - Teun van Eijsden

SVGGraph::Pie Perl extension for Pie as SVG SVGGraph-Pie-0.05 - 27 Jul 2003 - Tsukui Akihiro

Image::Info::SVG SVG support for Image::Info Image-Info-1.16 - 07 Jan 2004 - Gisle Aas

UML::Sequence::Svg converts xml sequence files to svg UML-Sequence-0.05 - 30 Sep 2003 - Philip Crow

XML::Generator::SVG::ShapeFile Generate SAX2 events for an SVG rendering of an ESRI shapefile. XML-Generator-SVG-ShapeFile-0.2 - 21 Aug 2004 - Aaron Straup Cope

Gnome2::Rsvg Perl interface to the RSVG library Gnome2-Rsvg-0.03 - 11 Sep 2004 - Torsten Schönfeld

Image::LibRSVG Image-LibRSVG-0.04 - 19 Aug 2004 - Tom Schindl

Linux::Svgalib Object Oriented Perl interface to the svgalib graphics library Linux-Svgalib-1.2 - 11 Apr 2001 - Jonathan Stowe

XML::LibRSVG Interface to gnome's librsvg XML-LibRSVG-0.01 - 30 Oct 2001 - Matt Sergeant

Games::Chess::Coverage::SVG Visualize chess coverage with SVG Games-Chess-Coverage-0.0201 - 05 Aug 2004 - Gene Boggs

Games::Go::SGF2misc::SVG Package to simplify SGF game rendering using Image::LibrSVG Games-Go-SGF2misc-SVG-1.00 - 10 May 2004 - Orien Vandenbergh

Games::Chess::Coverage::SVG::Board Draw a chess board Games-Chess-Coverage-0.0201 - 05 Aug 2004 - Gene Boggs

Bio::TreeIO::svggraph A simple output format that converts a Tree object to an SVG output bioperl-1.4 - 23 Dec 2003 - Ewan Birney

Apache::AxKit::Language::Svg2AnyFormat SVG Serializer Apache-AxKit-Language-Svg2AnyFormat-0.06 - 17 May 2004 - Tom Schindl

Apache::AxKit::Plugin::SvgCgiSerialize CGI-Parameter Plugin Apache-AxKit-Language-Svg2AnyFormat-0.06 - 17 May 2004 - Tom Schindl

Ronan Oger Developer, Perl SVG core module Partner, http://Vectoreal.com

For more information on serverside SVG solutions using Perl, please contact Vectoreal http://www.vectoreal.com/contact.html