User guide

22 Creating Card Formats
The following is an example that will signal the printer software to translate:
• Any uppercase “A” character to a lowercase “a”
• Any lowercase “a” to an uppercase “A”
• Any uppercase “B” character to a null (0x00)
datacard:translations Example
OpenCard
data stream
<123AaB9876>
Card format
<?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”UTF-8”?>
<svg width=”1013px” height=”638px” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg”>
<datacard:translations>
<datacard:translate from=”A” to=”a”/>
<datacard:translate from=”a” to=”A”/>
<datacard:translate from=”B” to=”0x00”/>
</datacard:translations>
<g id=”CARD_FRONT”>
... front side card personalization operations go here ...
</g>
<g id=”CARD_BACK”>
... back side card personalization operations go here ...
</g>
</svg>
Data
merged into
card format
LINE1=123aA