XQuery/Google Chart Bullet Bar

Motivation

To display a Bullet Chart to display the current value of a system parameter with its safe and danger ranges.

Bullet Bars

This is one of the chart types supported by the now deprecated " Google Chart API which constructs the chart from URL parameters.

Sample URL

 http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=bhs&chs=150x30&chd=t:70&chm=r,ff0000,0,0.0,0.5%7Cr,ffff00,0,0.5,0.75%7Cr,00A000,0,0.75,1.0%7Cr,000000,0,0.8,0.81&chco=000000&chbh=10

Sample Screen Image

terms used in dashboard gauge

Declarative XML Representation

An XML representation of the chart design might be:

<chart >
   <type>bar-gauge</type>
   <height>30</height>  <!-- in pixels -->
   <width>150</width>    <!-- in pixels -->
   <danger-threshold>50</danger-threshold>  <!-- end of danger level -->
   <danger-color>ff0000</danger-color>
   <warning-threshold>75</warning-threshold>   <!-- end of warning level -->
   <warning-color>ffff00</warning-color>
   <ok-threshold>100</ok-threshold>   <!-- end of ok level -->
   <ok-color>00ff00</ok-color>
   <target-value>90</target-value>
</chart>

Google Chars Representation

Which, when supplied with a current value, must be transformed into the following URL:

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?
 cht=bhs&
 chs=150x30&
 chd=t:70&
 chm=r,ff0000,0,0.0,0.5|
   r,ffff00,0,0.5,0.75|
   r,00A000,0,0.75,1.0|
   r,000000,0,0.8,0.81&
chco=000000&chbh=10

Sample XQuery Function

This function takes the specification of the chart and the current value, and generates the corresponding Google Chart URL.

Note that the width of the danger, warn and ok bars (red, yellow and green) are expressed as a percentage digit from 0 to 100.

declare function local:bullet-bar($spec,$current-value) {
let $danger-width-percent := $spec/danger-threshold div 100
let $warn-width-percent := $spec/warning-threshold div 100
let $ok-width-percent := $spec/ok-threshold div 100
let $target-width-percent := $spec/target-value div 100
let $target-plus-one := $target-width-percent + 0.01
 return concat(
   'http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=bhs&chs=',
    $spec/width,
    'x',
    $spec/height,
    '&chd=t:',$current-value, 
    '&chm=r,',$spec/danger-color,',0,0.0,', $danger-width-percent,
    '|r,',$spec/warning-color,',0,', $danger-width-percent, ',', $warn-width-percent,
    '|r,',$spec/ok-color,',0,', $warn-width-percent, ',', $ok-width-percent,
    '|r,000000,0,', $target-width-percent, ',', $target-plus-one, 
    '&chco=000000&chbh=',
    round($spec/height * 0.6)
  )
};

Generating a bullet bar

let $current-value := 70
let $url := local:bullet-bar($bar-spec,$current-value)
return
    <div>
        <h2>Example bullet bar</h2>
         <div> <img src="{$url}"/></div>
    </div>

Execute