DocBook Website and SVG images for the banners

[Jochen+oasis-open@Hayek.name]

Having recognized the power of SVG only recently

(maybe HTML5 is going to embrace all its relevant dedicated powers rather soonish anyway ˇ­),

I now wanted to make use of SVG for the banner "images".

Well, first I simply replaced the PNG with an SVG here:

  <config param="homebanner-tabular" 	value="graphics/homebanner.png"                   altval="Home Banner"/>

But during all my difficult attempts
of making use of SVG generated by Adobe Illustrator
I couldn't quite clearly see, where all my trouble originated.

After I had sorted the Adobe Illustrator SVG trouble itself,
I had to learn from here

  http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SVGimages.html

that my HTML would have to make use of the EMBED tag instead of the IMG tag.
Well "my" browsers being Firefox, Safari, and Chrome, that is not a problem, they all accept EMBED.

But how do I get my layout.xml to create the EMBED tag?

Looking through the "xsl/" subdirectory of my Website installation,
I am getting the impression, SVG is not getting mentioned there.

Any suggestions?



Me being a perl+ruby hacker
I can very well imagine postprocessing the HTML
and replacing code like this

  <img align="left" border="0" src="graphics/banner.svg" alt="Banner">

with code like this

  <embed align="left" border="0" src="graphics/banner.svg" alt="Banner" type="image/svg+xml">

That's part of my webscraper competenceˇ­ ;-)


But me *not* being an XSL hacker, what choice do I have?

Asking an XSL hacker here for his Amazon wishlist? :-)




Kind regards,
J.