Re: Thoughts on cleaning up SVG 1.1 for Second Edition

From: Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:36:51 +0200 To: "Cameron McCormack" <cam@mcc.id.au>, public-svg-wg@w3.org Message-ID: <op.urnuvpthgqiacl@gnorps.linkoping.osa> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 31 March 2009 14:39:41 GMT

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:43:56 +0200, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote:

> Chris Lilley:
>> These are much nicer. What do you start from, RNG?
>
> No, as mentioned in the telcon, I list explicitly in the master/ file
> what attributes/elements the element can have.  For example:
>
>   <edit:elementsummary
>     name='g'
>     categories='structural'
>     contentmodel='anyof'
>     contentmodelcategories='animation, descriptive, shape, structural,
>       text, gradient'
>     contentmodelelements='a, clipPath, color-profile, cursor, filter,
>       font, image, marker, mask, pattern, script, style, switch, view'
>     attributecategories='conditional, core, graphical event, presentation, style'
>     attributes='externalResourcesRequired, transform'
>     interfaces='SVGGElement'/>

Could the @categories, @contentmodel etc be generated from the RNG automatically, so that it might be enough to just put <edit:elementsummary name="g"/> in master?

Cheers
/Erik

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