Child element order differences between SVG 1.1 and SVG Tiny 1.2

• From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
• Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:32:16 +1000
• To: public-svg-wg@w3.org
• Message-ID: <20090417053216.GE9802@arc.mcc.id.au>

In SVG 1.1, the DTD for various elements restrict the order of the
element’s children.  For example here is the definition of <rect>
with the entities expanded out:

  <!ELEMENT "rect"
     (( desc | title | metadata )*,
      ( animate | set | animateMotion | animateColor |
        animateTransform )*)>

So any <desc>, <title> or <metadata> elements have to appear before any
of the animation elements.

It seems for container elements, however, such as <g>, the <desc>,
<title> and <metdata> elements can go anywhere.


In SVG Tiny 1.2, the RNG doesn’t require <rect>’s descriptive element
children to come first.  Is this behaviour we want to backport to 1.1
when publishing the Second Edition (by virtue of starting from the 1.2T
RNG and adding on to it)?  I think it is reasonable.

-- 
Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/

Received on Friday, 17 April 2009 05:33:28 UTC