Are there any tutorials on coding a parser for SVG files to be used by box2D?

Question

I am trying to create an iPhone game with fairly large levels. Hard coding the platforms and physics objects is very time consuming. I have seen some people have made their own parsers for svg files to use in box2D, and Riq is selling levelSVG but it is a little pricey for me at the moment, and I only need basic features. Is there a tutorial on how to code a parser available online?

Answer 1

Have you taken a look at SVGQuartzRenderer? It is designed to render SVG files in Quartz, so I imagine you might be able to pull out the SVG parsing code from this. It's opensource, MIT license.

Answer 2

I don't know about any tutorials but its fairly easy to do this using an XML parsing library. In my project I use MiniDOM to load an svg file and then I convert the elements into objects in the box2d word. The only thing that I had to do manually was the parsing of the path element.