- From: Craig Northway <craign@cisra.canon.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:59:51 +1100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, www-svg@w3.org
Ian, Ian Hickson wrote: >On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Craig Northway wrote: > > >>>>This has a number of problems. >>>> >>>>- It makes it much harder to use tools like XSLT. >>>> >>>> >>>That's an XSLT limitation, and should not restrict the SVG group from >>>making a good quality language. >>> >>> >>I think that making a good language would include making one that can be >>operated on easily by existing tools. I think that complex attribute >>syntaxes should be avoided because they significantly increase >>implementation complexity. >> >> > >I honestly don't see that a complex element structure is better than a >complex attribute syntax. > > I think that an element structure in this case is better than a complex attribute syntax because it shares a significant similarity with the filter effects feature. Craig
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