Embedding SVG in XUL

Question

I want to Embed SVG into XUL. I tried to use the this tutorial which requires pasting of the SVG code in XUL application and it works but this is not clean. I want to keep SVG and XUL files separate, further I will like to use a separate CSS file for SVG part, any examples how we can do this?

Answer 1

You can use xul-overlays:

1) Declare the overlay at the top of your xul file:

<?xul-overlay href="africa.svg"?>

2) Define an empty container svg element inside your xul file and assign the same id to it as to the main svg element in the included file.

<box>
  <svg:svg id="mapa" />
</box>

3) Remember to use a separate namespace for the svg part (see svg:svg above) and declare it.

<window xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"
    xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"&gt;

4) Make your svg file an overlay by putting an overlay declaration all around (I'm afraid you have to do this).

<overlay xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"&gt;
 <svg id="mapa">
  ...
</overlay>

About separate css files: Just create two of them and include them wherever you want - even in the svg overlay.

You might want to look inside a working example - a small geography quiz which I created years ago and just updated yesterday to make it work again in current firefoxes:

http://open-projects.net/~nico/countryquiz/

Just look at the source files!