<diagram></diagram>

Provided by module: Business graphics

The <diagram> tag is used to draw pie, bar, or line charts as well as graphs. It is quite complex with six internal tags.

Attributes

3d="number": Draws a pie-chart on top of a cylinder, takes the height in pixels of the cylinder as argument.
background="path": Use an image as background. Valid types are gif-, jpeg- or pnm-images.
bgcolor="color": Set the background color to use for anti-aliasing.
center="number": Centers a pie chart around the nth slice.
eng: Write numbers in engineering fashion, i.e like 1.2M.
font="font": Use this font. Can be overridden in the <legend>, <xaxis>, <yaxis> and <names> tags.
fontsize="number": Height of the text in pixels.
height="number": Height of the diagram in pixels. Will not have effect below 100.
horgrid: Draw a horizontal grid.
labelcolor="color": Sets the color for the labels of the axis.
legendfontsize="number": Height of the legend text. fontsize is used if this is undefined.
name="string": Write a name at the top of the diagram.
namecolor="color" (textcolor): Set the color of the name, by default set by the textcolor attribute.
namefont="font": Set the font for the diagram name.
namesize="number": Sets the height of the name, by default fontsize.
neng: As eng, but 0.1-1.0 is written as 0.xxx.
notrans: Make bgcolor opaque.
rotate="degree": Rotate a pie chart this much.
textcolor: Set the color for all text.
tonedbox="color1,color2,color3,color4": Create a background shading between the colors assigned to each of the four corners.
quant="number": The number of colors that the result image should have. Default is 128 if tonedbox is used and 32 otherwise.
turn: Turn the diagram 90 degrees. Useful when printing large diagrams.
type="{sumbars, normsum, line, bar, pie, graph}": The type of diagram. This attribute is required.
vertgrid: Draw vertical grid lines.
voidsep="string": Change the string that means no such value, by default 'VOID'.
width="number": Set the width of the diagram in pixels. Values below 100 will not take effect. This attribute is required.
xgridspace="number": Set the space between two vertical grid lines. The unit is the same as for the data.
ygridspace: Set the space between two horizontal grid lines. The unit is the same as for the data.

<colors></colors>

Provided by module: Business graphics

This tag sets the colors for different pie slices, bars or lines. The colors are presented to the tag in a tab separated list.

Attributes

separator="string": Set the separator between colors, by default tab.

<data></data>

Provided by module: Business graphics

This tag contains the data the diagram is to visualize It is required that the data is presented to the tag in a tabular or newline separated form.

Attributes

form="{column, row}": How to interpret the tabular data, by default row.
lineseparator="string": Use the specified string as lineseparator instead of newline.
noparse: Do not parse the contents by the RXML parser, before data extraction is done.
separator="string": Set the separator between elements, by default tab.
xnames="number": If given, treat the first row or column as names for the data to come. If xnames is set to a number N, N lines or columns are used. The name will be written along the pie slice or under the bar.
xnamesvert: Write the xnames vertically.

<legend></legend>

Provided by module: Business graphics

A separate legend with description of the different pie slices, bars or lines.The titles are presented to the tag in a tab separated list.

Attributes

separator="string": Set the separator between legends, by default tab.

<xaxis/>

Provided by module: Business graphics

Used for specifying the quantity and unit of the x-axis, as well as its scale, in a graph. The <yaxis> tag uses the same attributes.

Attributes

start="float": Limit the start of the diagram at this value. If set to min the axis starts at the lowest value in the data.
stop="float": Limit the end of the diagram at this value.
quantity="string": Set the name of the quantity of this axis.
unit="string": Set the name of the unit of this axis.

<xnames></xnames>

Provided by module: Business graphics

Separate tag that can be used to give names to put along the pie slices or under the bars. The datanames are presented to the tag as a tab separated list. This tag is useful when the diagram is dynamically created. The <ynames> tag uses the same attributes.

Attributes

separator="string" (tab): Set the separator between names, by default tab.
orient="{vert, horiz}": How to write names, vertically or horizontally.

<yaxis/>

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Used for specifying the quantity and unit of the y-axis, as well as its scale, in a graph or line chart.Se the <xaxis> tag for a complete list of attributes.

<ynames></ynames>

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Some examples:

  <diagram type='pie' width='200' height='200'  name='Population'
  tonedbox='lightblue,lightblue,white,white'>
    <data separator=','>5305048,5137269,4399993,8865051</data>
    <legend separator=','>Denmark,Finland,Norway,Sweden</legend>
 </diagram>

 <diagram type='bar' width='200' height='250' name='Population'
 horgrid='' tonedbox='lightblue,lightblue,white,white'>
   <data xnamesvert='' xnames='' separator=','>
     Denmark,Finland,Norway,Sweden
     5305048,5137269,4399993,8865051
   </data>
 </diagram>

 <diagram type='bar' width='200' height='250'
 name='Age structure' horgrid=''
 tonedbox='lightblue,lightblue,white,white'>
   <data xnamesvert='' xnames='' form='column'
   separator=','>
     Denmark,951175,3556339,797534
     Finland,966593,3424107,746569
     Norway,857952,2846030,696011
     Sweden,1654180,5660410,1550461
   </data>
   <legend separator=','>
     0-14,15-64,65-
   </legend>
 </diagram>

 <diagram type='sumbar' width='200' height='250'
 name='Land Use' horgrid=''
 tonedbox='lightblue,lightblue,white,white'>
   <data xnamesvert='' xnames='' form='column'
   separator=','>
     Denmark,27300,4200,10500
     Finland,24400,231800,48800
     Norway,9240,83160,215600
     Sweden,32880,279480,102750
   </data>
   <legend separator=','>
     Arable,Forests,Other
   </legend>
   <yaxis quantity='area'/>
   <yaxis unit='km^2'/>
 </diagram>

 <diagram type='normsumbar' width='200' height='250'
 name='Land Use' horgrid=''
 tonedbox='lightblue,lightblue,white,white'>
   <data xnamesvert='' xnames='' form='column'
   separator=','>
     Denmark,27300,4200,10500
     Finland,24400,231800,48800
     Norway,9240,83160,215600
     Sweden,32880,279480,102750
   </data>
   <legend separator=','>
     Arable,Forests,Other
   </legend>
   <yaxis quantity='%'/>
 </diagram>

 <diagram type='line' width='200' height='250'
 name='Exchange Rates' horgrid=''
 tonedbox='lightblue,lightblue,white,white'>
   <data form='row' separator=','
   xnamesvert='' xnames=''>
     1992,1993,1994,1995,1996
     0.166,0.154,0.157,0.179,0.172
     0.223,0.175,0.191,0.229,0.218
     0.161,0.141,0.142,0.158,0.155
     0.172,0.128,0.130,0.149,0.140</data>
   <yaxis start='0.09' stop='0.25'/>
   <legend separator=','>
     Danish kroner (DKr),
     Markkaa (FMk),
     Norwegian kronor (NKr),
     Swedish kronor (SKr)
   </legend>
   <xaxis quantity='year'/>
   <yaxis quantity='US$'/>
 </diagram>