How to either determine SVG text box width, or force line breaks after 'x' characters?

Question

I\'m creating an SVG text box using the Raphael library, and filling it with a dynamic string which is extracted from an XML document.

Sometimes, this string is long

Answer 1

Well, i solved it tweaking it a little bit

var words = server.split( " " );
var length = words.length;
var temp_text = "";

for( var i = 0; i < length; i++ ) {
    temp_text = temp_text + ' ' + words[i];
    t.attr( "text", temp_text );

    if( t.getBBox().width > width ) {
        temp_text = temp_text.replace(/( *)(\w+)$/, "\n$2");
    }
}

t.attr( "text", temp_text.trim() );