Generating SVG figure by pasting XML text directly

Question

[Stephan]

I would like to automatize the generation of figures from my data to make my analyses as reproducible as possible. This works quite well for graphs with RMarkdown, knitr, quarto and so on. For figures existing exclusively of microscopy images, this sometimes feels unnecessarily complicated. Therefore, I thought of generating SVG figures (files) by simply pasting the XML code directly into the files.

Is anyone using this approach?

I'm aware that this might not scale very well, but it seems like a reasonable quick solution.

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

pasting the XML code directly into the files.

what does it mean ? how is it related to bioinformatics ?

[Stephan]

Thanks for your reply. What I mean is generating XML/SVG files without using functions from libraries, but simply writing text directly to the file. This would be a general thing suitable for generating any type of figure, but I would like to use it for assembling multi-panel figures for publications.