Re: What is wrong with SVG?

Arnold, Curt 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.  This form would
> be much easier to generate from XSLT since xsl:text
> can be used to append to text content, but there is
> no current capability to append to an attribute.
>

How about something like:

<xsl:template match="path">
    <path><xsl:attribute name="d"><xsl:value-of select-"@d /> L 300
300</xsl:attribute></path>
</xsl:template>

Jonathan Borden