<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">If only there were animation templates?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 25, 2016, at 5:08 PM, Andreas Plesch <<a href="mailto:andreasplesch@gmail.com" class="">andreasplesch@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:16:28 -0500<br class="">
From: John Carlson <<a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com" class="">yottzumm@gmail.com</a>><br class="">
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Anyway, I can probably use D3.js. I was just thinking of an XML syntax?probably can use templates.<br class="">
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It?s almost like a collection decorator. You decorate your data with a scenegraph, instead of populating your scenegraph with data.<br class="">
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</blockquote></div><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">D3 can be seen just as a convenience library but I am intrigued by the way it promotes really concise, data driven code in an almost declarative style, which actually did lead to new applications for svg. So is there a way to translate the idea of implicitly iterating over and operating on node selections or joined selections into a XML syntax, or more specific X3D functionality ?<br class=""></div>XSLT should come close to providing similar functionality but requires a preprocessing step and of course learning how to use it. So the answer may be that implicit node or field generation based on data arrays is outside the scope of x3d and that there are already good ways to do this.<br class=""></div><div class="">Still, an intriguing question,<br class=""></div><div class="">Andreas<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class="">-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature">Andreas Plesch<br class="">39 Barbara Rd.<br class="">Waltham, MA 02453</div>
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