- From: Bill Foote via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 14:38:36 +0000
- To: public-svg-issues@w3.org
zathras has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/svgwg:
== Omission/Error in SVG ENBF for floating point numbers ==
As suggested by Ben Bullock, I'm reporting this bug here:
On Tue, 18 May 2021 at 10:39, Bill Foote <billf@jovial.com> wrote:
The ENBF at https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/CR-SVG2-20181004/paths.html#PathDataBNF says:
coordinate::= sign? number
sign::= "+"|"-"
number ::= ([0-9])+
This, of course, makes floating-point numbers illegal. Surely that's
unintentional? One assumes that scientific notation was meant to be
permitted, as well.
Floating point number syntax is extensively documented in the SVG 1.1 document:
https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/paths.html#PathDataBNF
A change disallowing floating point numbers from SVG 1.1 to SVG 2 is not noted in the list of changes:
https://svgwg.org/svg-next/changes.html#paths
So it rather looks like an omission.
I couldn't find this on the bug list:
https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+floating
It might be worth reporting there too.
Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/851 using your GitHub account
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