Re: <image xlink:href="foo.svg"/>

Markku Savela wrote:
> 
> Uhh.. this just prompts me to ask about..
> 
> > > <image x="50" y="50" width="100" height="100" xlink:href="foo.svg"/>
> 
> Why is there a need for "xlink:" in above? plain "href" should be
> enough, "xlink:" seems totally unnecessary!

it says that this is not just any old attribute called href - it is the
href attribute from the XLink namespace. And thus, it denotes a link -
to a general link processor as well as to an SVG-specific processor.
> 
> ...or, is this something brought to us by XML?

Yes.

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Chris