On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 2:35 AM, Andreas Borutta <borumat@...26...> wrote:

Donn Ingle schrieb:
I have not tried it, but Google sheets might be a path to a quality solution. https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/
Thanks for your hint. But that is Javascript and not a SVG.

Actually, it is both! "Charts are rendered using HTML5/SVG technology to provide cross-browser compatibility (including VML for older IE versions) and cross platform portability to iPhones, iPads and Android." Unfortunately it uses paths instead of circles/ellipses or rectangles. Other than that it is somewhat semantic, though, even supporting ARIA (accessibility, which is a field that is basically all about [semantic] markup and device-independent parsing thereof).

And you can't use an Excel spreadsheet or a CSV file. All the data has to be transformed in special JavaScript data code.

As Don Ingle replied, data can come from a Google Spreadsheet (through "Datasource Queries") and Google Sheets can import from Excel, Calc, or CSV/TSV, so that is a possible toolchain. But you are right that it is not a very pleasant solution.

The file Maren Hachmann attached seems the cleanest (especially if you use Scrub, which is the 'Save as > Simplified SVG' option in Inkscape), as it uses the appropriate SVG primitives.

-Arlo James Barnes