SVG
From Wildsong
Mapserver and SVG
I can change a .map file to generate SVG as output. See http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/svg-howto/?searchterm=SVG for an example on how to do this.
What does this buy me?
Links
This site looks very interesting: http://www.svgconference.com/ Here is a paper on topo maps. http://www.svgconference.com/SVG_2004/2004/papers/TopographicMapsWithSVG/
Adobe SVG site and viewer plugin
Mozilla SVG site (more links here)
W3C SVG DOM
XML parser
xmlproc is a Python tool set that you can grab... http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/software/xmlproc/