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RE: What is wrong with SVG?

From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 15:30:10 -0800
Message-Id: <3.0.32.20000306152952.0299bda0@pop.intergate.ca>
To: Jon Ferraiolo <jferraio@adobe.com>, "Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com>
Cc: "'xml-dev@xml.org'" <xml-dev@xml.org>, "'www-svg@w3.org'" <www-svg@w3.org> 
At 03:11 PM 3/6/00 -0800, Jon Ferraiolo wrote:
>At 03:30 PM 3/6/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>Jon, Thanks for the reply to xml-dev.  Could you address any reasons why:
>>  <path d="M 100 100 L 200 200"/>
>>Could not be represented as:
>>  <path><d>M 100 100 L 200 200</d></path>
>>at least as an alternative format. 

Actually, the attribute format does have one advantage.  XML 1.0 contains
(IMHO) a design error whereby attribute values are "normalized", i.e the
white space is condensed, line breaks are pulled out, and so on.  This
would allow you to write

<path d="
      M
      100
      100
      L
      200
      200
">

and still have it show up in the app with just single space characters.

Sigh. -Tim
Received on Monday, 6 March 2000 18:30:14 UTC

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