I've been trying to do this for a while now, and I hoped that it'd be possible with the inkscape command line, but I'm new to this, so I can't see how. I've got a .svg file that's from the OpenGroup's Archi application. It's got boxes and links with names. What I'd like to do is make the names clickable. So, for example, the box: -- John Fisher Znyx Networks

I've been trying to do this for a while now, and I hoped that it'd be possible with the inkscape command line, but I'm new to this, so I can't see how. I've got a .svg file that's from the OpenGroup's Archi application. It's got boxes and links with names. What I'd like to do is make the names clickable. So, for example, the box: ---------------------- | | | my_label | | | ---------------------- Would be clickable, as a box, and go to: http://mywebsite.com/my_label This will work because I'm using a wiki, so the 'my_label' will become a page on the wiki. Is there a way to get inkscape to add the link: <a xlink:href="http://mywebsite.com/my_label"> box </a> Or, in other words, to translate: <a xlink:href="http://takingserviceforward.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ser... <text fill="black" x="332" xml:space="preserve" y="159" clip-path="url(#clipPath8)" stroke="none" id="text88738">My_Label</text> <rect x="1356" y="370" clip-path="url(#clipPath5)" fill="none" width="246" rx="27.5" ry="27.5" height="54" stroke="rgb(255,255,181)" id="rect88726" /> To: <a xlink:href="http://takingserviceforward.org/wiki/index.php?title=My_... <text fill="black" x="332" xml:space="preserve" y="159" clip-path="url(#clipPath8)" stroke="none" id="text88738">My_Label</text> <rect x="1356" y="370" clip-path="url(#clipPath5)" fill="none" width="246" rx="27.5" ry="27.5" height="54" stroke="rgb(255,255,181)" id="rect88726" /> </a> I'd be grateful for any suggestions - if there's something else that manipulates .svg files that could do this, it'd be good to know! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

Thank you very much for that pointer. Yes, I know they're text files. I've been editing them with awk,

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Thank you for the pointer to Kate. I'll look her up. What'd be really nice would be an XML extension to vi (vim)!

I've never really got on with Eclipse. It may be a very different tool now, but when I last tried to use it was clumsy, slow, unintuitive and buggy.

I've had a look at Kate, and at a test version of a commercial XML editor. They seem OK at getting a pretty line-up of the elements, not that that's particularly difficult. The problem I see is that they seem only to have text search and replace - I'd have thought that the whole point was to search and replace at the node level - a semantic search.

So they seem more like a plug-in to vi for appearance than an actual object editor. I tried the python libraries. They have read-in alternatives of DOM and SAX. After that, they seem a bit basic. They seem to expect you to know the schema, or know which to choose from the various schemas. I was expecting a bit more. Maybe I'm foolish, but I'd hoped to be able to: - read into a DOM structure - print out the schema - a node tree - of something as common as a .svg file - do a search and replace on tags or objects Something like: %s/<text>\(.*\)</text>/<a href:\1>&</a>/ But with some knowledge of the tags - the above is simply sed syntax. I'm getting the strong feeling that where I started, with awk, might be the least inelegant place. Unless, as is quite possible, I'm missing something fundamental. When I use the python DOM, the underlying assumption seems to be that it's a fairly balanced and uniform tree, with a single root. An SVG file, though, has a preamble, then a whole series of nodes, at the same level as the preamble, so it's a much flatter structure. So looking for sub-nodes of the root and their siblings doesn't really work - well, it might, if there was a way to print out what it thinks the structure is to get an idea of the best way to navigate it. The examples I've found make sense, but they're all based on much simpler and more regular structures than an svg file. Inkscape offers some nice looking reflections and transformations of the diagram, but doesn't really seem helpful when it comes to attaching URLs or other actions in the CLI. Again, maybe I'm missing an obvious trick. If I am missing some obvious tricks here, I'd be most grateful if somebody could point them out to me - or point me in the direction of something that addresses this. -- John Fisher Znyx Networks

Good point JSON is much easier to understand and work with. I've not been following it much recently - how far is the JSON/SVG project so far?

Thank you very much for that pointer. Yes, I know they're text files. I've been editing them with awk, but it's a bit of a fiddle getting the context right - you have to find the text, then work back to the object that it's contained in. Not impossible, but it looks as if an inkscape extension might be a more sensible solution since it knows about the objects.

On 27 February 2015 at 14:18, Vasco <vasco+python@...3082...> wrote: > Dear Peter, > > SVG files are plain text files. You mention in your explanation > that you only have to replace a certain string (one url with > another one). This can be done with any editor, for example with sed > (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10309968/sed-search-and-replace-string...). > > If you have to do more logic, it is better to write an inkscape > extension. This is just a script, that reads a svg file and outputs > the converted svg file. I have good experiences writing extensions > in python. > > A relevant resource is: > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PythonEffectTutorial > > Here the inkex class does all the reading/writing of the files. I > wrote: https://bitbucket.org/vascotenner/inkscape-fix_text_boxes > > Kind regards, > Vasco > > > On 26-02-15 06:31, Peter Brooks wrote: >> I've been trying to do this for a while now, and I hoped that it'd >> be possible with the inkscape command line, but I'm new to this, >> so I can't see how. >> >> I've got a .svg file that's from the OpenGroup's Archi application. >> It's got boxes and links with names. >> >> What I'd like to do is make the names clickable. So, for example, >> the box: >> >> >> ---------------------- >> | | >> | my_label | >> | | >> ---------------------- >> >> Would be clickable, as a box, and go to: >> >> http://mywebsite.com/my_label >> >> This will work because I'm using a wiki, so the 'my_label' will >> become a page on the wiki. >> >> Is there a way to get inkscape to add the link: >> >> <a xlink:href="http://mywebsite.com/my_label"> box </a> >> >> Or, in other words, to translate: >> >> <a >> xlink:href="http://takingserviceforward.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ser... >> >> <text >> fill="black" >> x="332" >> xml:space="preserve" >> y="159" >> clip-path="url(#clipPath8)" >> stroke="none" >> id="text88738">My_Label</text> >> <rect >> x="1356" >> y="370" >> clip-path="url(#clipPath5)" >> fill="none" >> width="246" >> rx="27.5" >> ry="27.5" >> height="54" >> stroke="rgb(255,255,181)" >> id="rect88726" /> >> >> To: >> <a >> xlink:href="http://takingserviceforward.org/wiki/index.php?title=My_... >> <text fill="black" >> x="332" >> xml:space="preserve" >> y="159" >> clip-path="url(#clipPath8)" >> stroke="none" >> id="text88738">My_Label</text> >> <rect >> x="1356" >> y="370" >> clip-path="url(#clipPath5)" >> fill="none" >> width="246" >> rx="27.5" >> ry="27.5" >> height="54" >> stroke="rgb(255,255,181)" >> id="rect88726" /> >> </a> >> >> I'd be grateful for any suggestions - if there's something else >> that manipulates .svg files that could do this, it'd be good to >> know! >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel >> Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with >> Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software >> development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, >> case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the >> conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ >> _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user >> mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel > Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with > Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software > development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, > case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the > conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user > mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user