Jonathan Chetwynd: > on what basis do you state: > > >>Technically the document should be rendered up until the element that > has the <use> element with the missing xlink:href="" attribute.
That’s what the “Error Processing” section of the “Implementation Requirements” appendix says: The document shall be rendered up to, but not including, the first element which has an error. — http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/implnote.html#ErrorProcessing Things changed in SVG Tiny 1.2 so that many cases such as this are just treated as unsupported, and just result in the element being rendered as if the offending attribute wasn’t specified. > the links you provide do not appear to mention what action to take for > an invalid reference. The following rules apply to the processing of invalid URI references: * An invalid local URI reference (i.e., an invalid references to a node within the current document) represents an error (see Error processing), apart from the xlink:href attribute on the 'a' element and the properties that allow for backup values in the case where the URI reference is invalid (see 'fill' and 'stroke'). * … — http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/struct.html#HeadOverview > clearly this is not the same as invalid xml else why not merely say > it's invalid? No, the above rules define what to do. > like gifs and jpegs, I would expect them merely not to be displayed, That is the case in SVG Tiny 1.2… > and possibly a marker or indicator provided. …that isn’t, though. > would it be advisable at this stage to take this to the SVG WG? > supposing that I have not missed any indication as to how to interpret > the meaning of invalid reference I think the behaviour is specified well enough. > we are not so far discussing missing attributes, please can we stick > to the thread? Sorry, I did switch to talking about missing xlink:href="" attributes. The behaviour in SVG 1.1 is the same, though, for missing and invalid xlink:href="" on <use>. -- Cameron McCormack, http://mcc.id.au/ xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ ICQ 26955922 ▪ MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
