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In AGS you'll have to use the set command to modify the tag one level higher than where you want to make the addition. In your example, you'd have to do the set on the svg tag: reading in all the existing SVG, modifying it, and then doing the set.

This would be a lot easier to do in an XML parser (Xerces, etc.) than AGS.

Thanks.

But I'd like to know if a command to create a tag exist in ADS ?
I'd like to start with an empty svg, and then add elements with ADS.

Wedge

If you know the syntax and structure of the SVG file you want, and will start from scratch. Why use ADS? You could just create a text file name it with .svg extension. I am confused.

I try ADS for making demo.
I would like to know if ADS is able to do what i need.
In fac, I don't really start from scratch. I have this, in an other example, still in SVG :

<_text id="texte" font-family="'CopperplateGothicBT-Roman'" font-size="9" x=" 171.6914" y="62.5059" >
       _my_text_
 <_/text>

And I would like to change "_my_text_". I have try differents Xpath, but it'n doesn't work (i loose the attributs, or the text doesn't change). I have try this for example:

<set target="id('new')">_change_</set>
but i loose the attributs.

Why it doesn't work ??

Thanks

See the documentation for the set command in the Command Reference. It has a section with a few "set" examples for simple SVG.

This will work to replace a simple run of existing text at the "top" level of the SVG.
set target="/svg/text[@id='texte']/node()" value="new text"

If you want to replace text in SVG, you should look at the applyVariables command in both the Command Reference and the Developer Guide. That takes away the hassle of dealing with xPaths.

Thanks Bob, it works !
I use the node() command, and it's correct
Thanks again.

But I still have the problem of creating a new tag. The set command can modify a tag. But is there a way to create a new one ?

<svg>
<circle ... />
</svg>

I would like to have this using an xml command :

<svg>
<circle ... />
<ellipse ... />
</svg>

With the set & node commands I can create only one tag inside the circle tag. But it's not what I want. I need to create one just after..

See the earlier responses from Chuck and Wilson for two options.

To make it a little easier to use AGS's set command to replace the outer tag, write your SVG with one or more <g> tags

<svg>
<g>
<circle ... />
</g>
... other stuff
</svg>

Then replace the old <g> with just the circle with the new one that has both the circle and the ellipse. (The logic and code to do this would have to happen outside of AGS.)

<svg>
<g>
<circle ... />
<ellipse ... />
</g>
... other stuff
</svg>

Or something like this might work with predefined placeholders :
<svg>
<g id="circle" >
<circle ... />
<g id="empty1"></g>
<g id="empty2"></g>
</svg>

Then you can replace the empty g's...

Thanks. It's what I do. I create my svg with a lot of empty tag cause I don't know how I will need. So it seems that there is no command to create a new tag.
Thanks for all of that.