- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:04:00 +0200
- To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- CC: public-svg-wg@w3.org
On Friday, April 17, 2009, 7:32:16 AM, Cameron wrote: CM> In SVG 1.1, the DTD for various elements restrict the order of the CM> element’s children. For example here is the definition of <rect> CM> with the entities expanded out: CM> <!ELEMENT "rect" CM> (( desc | title | metadata )*, CM> ( animate | set | animateMotion | animateColor | CM> animateTransform )*)> CM> So any <desc>, <title> or <metadata> elements have to appear before any CM> of the animation elements. CM> It seems for container elements, however, such as <g>, the <desc>, CM> <title> and <metdata> elements can go anywhere. CM> In SVG Tiny 1.2, the RNG doesn’t require <rect>’s descriptive element CM> children to come first. Yes. That was a deliberate decision. CM> Is this behaviour we want to backport to 1.1 CM> when publishing the Second Edition (by virtue of starting from the 1.2T CM> RNG and adding on to it)? I think it is reasonable. I think so too. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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