Re: consideration for SVG 1.2

James Bentley wrote:
> Please consider allowing 'tref' elements to reference 'switch' elements. Our
> current product has a need to provide conditional text based on resources
> available on the platform (i.e. 'externalResourcesRequired'). In this
> manner,
> we can support our conditional text insertion, and inherit the proper
> styling.

In SVG 1.1 tref can reference *any* element, and its full textual 
content will be used (without the markup). I assume that what you want 
is for switch to do its conditional processing before tref does its 
inclusion, otherwise you get all of switch's content, right?

The problem I see with this is that you if you take into account switch 
you might as well take into account display, or foreignObject, or a 
variety of other things (which'll break backcompat) -- special-casing 
for switch feels a bit wrong. Also, the functionality needed for tref to 
extract the text is already needed by DOM's textContent attribute, so 
it's reusing existing code.

-- 
Robin Berjon