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Re: Conformance classes

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 10:26:30 +1000
To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
Cc: public-svg-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <20090805002629.GA27267@wok.mcc.id.au>
Cameron McCormack:
> > SVG 1.1 defines a “Conforming SVG Document Fragment” and “Conforming SVG
> > Included Document Fragment” conformance class, among others.  I cannot
> > see a difference between these.  Is there one?  If not, can we drop
> > “Conforming SVG Included Document Fragment” and just make the point
> > about not allowing bare non-<svg> elements in the “Conforming SVG
> > Document Fragments” section?

Chris Lilley:
> Having read them both, they are different, but they have no
> reason to be. “Conforming SVG Document Fragment” requires
> namespace validity, and requires CSS stylesheets to conform to CSS2.
> “Conforming SVG Included Document Fragment” just required DTD
> validity.
>
> Given that, your suggestion to drop “Conforming SVG Included
> Document Fragment” and insert the stuff about bare non-<svg> is a
> good one.

OK I have done that.

> I also wonder if "any use of CSS conforms to Cascading Style Sheets,
> level 2" is too vague, and something like "any CSS stylesheets conform
> to the core grammar of Cascading Style Sheets, level 2" would be more
> precise. (Since SVG uses properties not defined in CSS2, for example).

OK I made this change too.

  http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.1F2/publish/conform.html#ConformingSVGDocuments

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