- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 19:05:37 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Chris Lilley <clilley@w3.org>, Marja-Riitta Koivunen <marja@w3.org>, WAI PF group <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, WAI GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
This message is world-public I am wondering whether it is better to define SVG symbols with a desc as child of the symbol, or to have a desc and a use as siblings. The benefit of having the desc defined within the symbol is that it reduces teh amount of work required, and provides a simple mechanism to ensure that people can use well--described graphic elements from libraries. The benefit of having it as a sibling for a use element is that it is easier to write a player that does not need to dereference the URI of the use element. But it seems like that would only really apply to a generic XML renderer that used a style sheet to render some textual content, and make no use of Xlink. Which seems to me like the sort of user agent that is basically broken, and need not be considered a use scenario. thoughts? Charles McCN --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://www.w3.org/People/Charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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