GoSVG User Guide

Version 1.04 release notes
Some (old) examples
Zip file of useful stuff (which includes GoSVG1-04.xsl, go.dtd and wood057.jpg)

Stylesheet Processors

If you want to split games into more than one diagram, you will need the xml stylesheet processor Xalan, bsf.jar and js.jar
and some luck, because they don't seem to work as well together as they used to. Otherwise try Saxon.
For Microsoft Windows users, there's xml2pdf, a free program from Alt Soft which can also generate svg files.

General Examples


The following commands take as input the Go game called 'in.xml', and output an svg file called 'out.svg'

On a Win9x system using Xalan, to set 'showMarks' to 'All' write:
java -classpath c:\xalan\bin\xalan.jar;c:\xalan\bin\xerces.jar org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in in.xml -xsl goSVG1-0.xsl -out out.svg -PARAM showMarks All

On a Win9x system using Saxon, to set 'format' to 'plain' and 'showMarks' to 'All' write:

java -classpath c:\saxon\saxon.jar com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -o out.svg in.xml goSVG1-0.xsl showMarks=All format=plain

On a Win9x system using Xalan, to output a diagram numbering moves 101-200 as 1-100, write:
java -classpath c:\xalan\bin\xalan.jar;c:\xalan\bin\xerces.jar;c:\rhino\js.jar;c:\xalan\bin\bsf.jar org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in in.xml -xsl goSVG1-0.xsl-out out.svg -PARAM numberFrom 101 -PARAM stopAt 200 -PARAM numberOffset 100
Note that you must use Xalan and include the paths to js.jar and bsf.jar for this to work. It can be quite slow - about 30 seconds.

Board cut-outs


Controlled by:
<xsl:param name="clipX">0</xsl:param> <xsl:param name="clipY">0</xsl:param>

By setting the clipX and clipY parameters you can control what section of the board is shown.
The section you want to display must contain at least two board edges.
Positive values of clipX slide the board to the right, obscuring the right-hand side.
Negative values of clipX slide the board to the left, obscuring the left-hand side.
Positive values of clipY slide the board down, obscuring the lower side.
Negative values of clipY slide the board up, obscuring the upper side.
For example setting clipY to -5 will hide the upper 5 rows of the board.

Diagram splitting

Controlled by:
<xsl:param name="stopAt">999</xsl:param> <xsl:param name="numberFrom">0</xsl:param> <xsl:param name="numberOffset">0</xsl:param>

Example - To split a game diagram into 3 sub-diagrams, you need to invoke the stylesheet 3 times.
The first time set stopAt to 100.
The second time set stopAt to 200, and numberFrom to 101. Optionally set numberOffset to 100.
The third time to display the rest of the game, set numberFrom to 201. Optionally set numberOffset to 200.

Miscellaneous

There are quite a few parameters you can set to control the look of your diagram.
Most are self explanetory, or explained in the stylesheet.
Some are explained in more detail below.

format

Controlled by:
<xsl:param name="format">pretty</xsl:param>

This can also be 'plain', which is designed to look like the kind of diagram you see in a book.
Plain format gives solid black and white stones, thicker grid lines, thicker board outline and larger handicap points.

boardName and showName

Controlled by:
<xsl:param name="boardName"/>
<xsl:param name="showName">on</xsl:param>

You can give a diagram a name using boardName. This will appear below the board.
For example "Figure 1" Note that the double quotes are necessary because of the space in the parameter.
You can switch on/off the display of the Game name using showName.
The Game name (if it exists) is part of the xml file and will be displayed at the top of the diagram.

hideInfo

Controlled by:
<xsl:param name="hideInfo">Application,BoardSize,User</xsl:param>

The default is to hide the Application,BoardSize and User information tags.
If you wanted to display the boardsize, you would set hideInfo to 'Application,User'