Wrong values of bounding box for text element using Batik

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I'm trying to draw a rectangle around a text element using getBBox(), the code is pretty straightforward, create document, add text element, boot document and add rectangle. The problem is that getBBox is returning some weird values, am I missing something? ``` DOMImplementation impl; String svgNS; SVGDocument doc; Element svgRoot; UserAgent userAgent; DocumentLoader loader; BridgeContext ctx; GVTBuilder builder; GraphicsNode rootGN; ... // get a DOM and create a document impl = SVGDOMImplementation.getDOMImplementation(); svgNS = SVGDOMImplementation.SVG_NAMESPACE_URI; doc = (SVGDocument)impl.createDocument(svgNS, "svg", null); // Get (the 'svg' element). svgRoot = doc.getDocumentElement(); // Set the width and height attributes on the root 'svg' element. svgRoot.setAttributeNS(svgNS, "width", "400"); svgRoot.setAttributeNS(svgNS, "height", "450"); // Add a text element Element txtElem = doc.createElementNS(svgNS, "text"); txtElem.setAttributeNS(svgNS, "x", "30"); txtElem.setAttribut…

Accepted Answer

The problem comes from the fact that you must use `setAttribute` instead of `setAttributeNS`. The specified `x` and `y` coordinates are ignored since they aren't the `x` and `y` attributes that Batik expects in the default namespace, they seem to be recognized as other unknown attributes. Just use this:

```
txtElem.setAttribute("x", "30");
txtElem.setAttribute("y", "50");
txtElem.setAttribute("style", "font-family:Arial;font-size:20;stroke:#000000;fill:#00ff00;");
```

Wrong values of bounding box for text element using Batik

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