Internet client graphics generation using XML formats

Abstract

For a long time abstractions have been commonly used for representing graphical elements. The use of network systems (in particular INTERNET) for this type of elements has the difficulty of trying to submit the enormous volume of information contained. One possible solution to this could be the transference of an abstracted definition of the charts and to perform the drawing in the client which is requesting the graphical form. Previous approaches have been based either on SVG [I] or XML [2] but they have the inconvenient of being unsuitable for future incremental developments. In the work presented here a new approach based on XML and Java is proposed. It does provide not only a working tool but it is also an open and incremental system regarding the possible techniques which can be applied during the drawing process in the client and during the transference of information as a XML document. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.