On Friday, September 30, 2005, 3:00:52 AM, Cameron wrote: CM> Chris Lilley: >> As I understand it this would be a change for the current codebase - who >> is adding this?
CM> One final thing I'd like to raise before committing the change is the CM> text in section G.2, which states: CM> An SVG document fragment is a Conforming SVG Document Fragment if it CM> adheres to the specification described in this document (Scalable CM> Vector Graphics (SVG) Specification) including SVG's DTD (see Document CM> Type Definition) and also: CM> * (relative to XML) is well-formed. CM> * if all non-SVG namespace elements and attributes and all xmlns CM> attributes which refer to non-SVG namespaces other than the XLink CM> namespace are removed from the given document, and if an CM> appropriate XML declaration (i.e., <?xml...?>) is included at the CM> top of the document, and if an appropriate document type CM> declaration (i.e., <!DOCTYPE svg ... >) which points to the SVG CM> DTD is included immediately thereafter, the result is a valid XML CM> document. CM> * [...] CM> and that a conforming standalone SVG document also is a conforming SVG CM> document fragment. CM> What does "adhering" to the DTD mean? Does it mean that the DTD should CM> be applied to the document? Or that the document should be valid if the CM> DTD were applied to it, but it should not actually be applied unless it CM> is explicitly referenced in the document? The latter. CM> Because it if is the former, CM> the text in 5.1.1 that says "an SVG namespace declaration must be CM> provided so that all SVG elements are identified as belonging to the SVG CM> namespace" would be satisfied even without the namespace declarations CM> appearing in the actual text of the document (especially since the CM> paragraphs below that say that "The following are possible ways to CM> provide a namespace declaration", implying that other methods could be CM> possible, too). -- Chris Lilley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
