GSVG is a project to provide a GObject API, using Vala. It has almost all, with some complementary, interfaces from W3C SVG 1.1 specification.
GSVG is LGPL library. It will use GXml as XML engine. SVG 1.1 DOM interfaces relays on W3C DOM, then using GXml is a natural choice.
SVG is XML and its DOM interfaces, requires to use Object’s properties and be able to add child DOM Elements; then, we need a new set of classes.
GXml, have a Serialization framework, it can be used to provide GObject properties to XML Element properties and collection of child nodes as GObject. I’ve created some other projects, like LibreSCL, using it.
Serialization framework, requires to create an XML tree first, then fill out GObject properties. This could add some delays on large files.
Considering LibreSCL have to deal with files about 10 MB to 60 MB, with thousand of XML nodes, this process XML Tree -> GObject properties, could take 10 to 20 seconds.
A few time ago, I imagined to have a GObject class as a XML Node. This is, an XML Element node, represent a GObject, XML Element’s properties should be mapped directly to GObject’s ones and XML Element’s child nodes, should be a collection inside GObject’s properties.
Now with SVG and GXml supporting DOM4, I face the opportunity to create a GObject class you can derive from, to convert your classes in XML nodes, making serialization/deserialization faster and reducing memory footprint.
Let’s see what is coming and how they evolve. As always, any help is welcome.
PD. As a side note, I’ve able to copy/paste with little modifications, W3C’s interfaces definitions to Vala ones in a short time, because Vala’s syntax.
