Re: ODF 1.2 and SVG

Agreed.  Here was one brief discussion I had with an OpenOffice person
at Sun two years ago:

http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/what_about_svg#comment13

This person seemed reluctant to the idea of taking the svg:rect
element and extending that - they preferred that ODF had its own
draw:rect element.

It kind of takes some of the wind out of the whole ODF-uses-SVG and
OOXML-is-evil argument as this person acknowledges:

http://idippedut.dk/post/2008/01/Embrace-and-extend---SVG-revisited.aspx

Regards,
Jeff

On 2/26/09, Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com> wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2009, at 22:56 , Andreas Neumann wrote:
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> > The Oasis people are discussing new features in ODF "Next". ODF 1.1 and
> 1.2 already have certain subsets of SVG in its file format (see
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.1/OS/OpenDocument-v1.1.pdf)
> - grep for SVG (mainly in attributes not in elements ;-() ODF also uses the
> SVG path syntax and many other SVG attributes.
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>  Do you think there's a chance of getting them to stop using SVG in a way I
> can only describe as pretty much completely wrong? They're taking SVG
> attributes and putting them in the SVG namespace, even though the SVG spec
> never defines those. It's not exactly a great example of XML reuse.
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