- From: Steve Schafer <steve@fenestra.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:43:28 -0400
- To: www-svg@w3.org
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 21:23:27 +0200, you wrote: >What you say is true - if the whitespace was changed from optional to >mandatory, then the comma would serve no purpose. However, the >whitespace is optional so the comma does serve a purpose. What you say is quite true, but it really has nothing to do with my question. :) Let me rephrase: Nearly all list-type attributes in SVG allow the elements of the list to be separated by either a comma (optionally surrounded by whitespace) or by just whitespace, without a comma. For example, in SVG 1.1, Section 4.1, under the description for <list of ...>, we find the following: "Unless explicitly described differently, lists within SVG's XML attributes can be either comma-separated, with optional white space before or after the comma, or white space-separated." Well, the stroke-dasharray attribute is one of the ones that is "explicitly described differently." And so my question is simply, why? Why not allow either comma-delimited _or_ whitespace-delimited values, as with most of the other attributes? Steve Schafer Fenestra Technologies Corp http://www.fenestra.com/
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