RE: Resolving URIs in shadow trees

Jon,

Yes...sorry. I forget that your root element is <svg> and not <xbl>!

Regards,

Mark


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Ferraiolo [mailto:jonf@adobe.com] 
> Sent: 03 August 2005 18:53
> To: Mark Birbeck; 'Cameron McCormack'
> Cc: www-svg@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Resolving URIs in shadow trees
> 
> At 10:25 AM 8/3/2005, Mark Birbeck wrote:
> 
> >Cameron,
> >
> > > I don't know if I would agree with that.  I'm sure there'd be 
> > > situations where you want a binding document to have some 
> gradients 
> > > defined (for
> > > example) that are used by all the shadow trees for a particular 
> > > binding, and you want to use a URI reference that contains only a 
> > > fragment identifier.  It would be a bit messy to have to 
> include the 
> > > gradient element in each generated shadow tree.
> >
> >Definitely.
> >
> >Perhaps we need some sort of 'static' declaration, like in 
> C++, where 
> >we can say that some content is available to all instances of a 
> >template, but it actually only need occur once. It retains 
> >encapsulation, which is one of the
> >(many) benefits of XBL.
> 
> Mark,
> The way to do a static declaration is to put the resource 
> definition outside of the <xbl:template>. For example, here 
> is an SVG file that could be imported (as in xbl:import) by 
> another SVG file:
> 
> <svg...>
>    <linearGradient id="foo"...>...</linearGradient>
>    <xbl:xbl>
>      <xbl:definition element="MyNS:MyElement">
>        <xbl:template>
>          <path fill="url(#foo)".../>
>        </xbl:template>
>      </xbl:definition>
>    </xbl:xbl>
> </svg>
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> >Regards,
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >
> >Mark Birbeck
> >CEO
> >x-port.net Ltd.
> >
> >e: Mark.Birbeck@x-port.net
> >t: +44 (0) 20 7689 9232
> >w: http://www.formsPlayer.com/
> >b: http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/
> >
> >Download our XForms processor from
> >http://www.formsPlayer.com/
> 
> 
>

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