- From: Cameron McCormack <clm@csse.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 12:10:57 +1000
- To: www-svg@w3.org
Hi Fred. Fred P.: > I think you never used <defs></defs> tag before did you? > The point of <defs> and <g> is to predeclare such figure > so that the printing order is not rendered as it is described, > i.e. from top to bottom in terms of XML code > it's pre-rendered in any order, then you can display it > using the <use> command. > > So, if you are faced with such situation, you simply > make sure that you render the object before inside the <defs> > tag part, then you render your table again inside the <defs> tag > and then you render it in any way you want, it the normal area > under <svg>...</svg> parent instead of <svg><defs>...</defs></svg> Can you give me a concrete example of how this would work, to avoid the problem of not being able to have an object rendered between two grid cells' objects? > That's why I'm saying XHTML table are okay for SVG, > it's just that some people don't like it and feel > that it was simply abused by HTML programmer for layout purposes, > which as far as I'm concern there is nothing wrong with that. Well there is that too. ;-) But you could always rename the element "grid" to get around that problem. Thanks, Cameron -- Cameron McCormack // clm@csse.monash.edu.au // http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~clm/ // icq 26955922
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