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Re: BUG: SVG <metadata> namespaces

From: Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:04:40 +0200
To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
Cc: Amaya List <www-amaya@w3.org>, Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr
Message-Id: <20010824150440.63687C@maiana.inrialpes.fr>
> When parsing an SVG document that includes a metadata element, if that
> element has a namespace that is not supported by Amaya (e.g. RDF) it stops
> parsing.
> 
> Example file: http://jigteam.w3.org/2001/08/imagePictures/001.svg
> 
> This is blocking some work I am trying to do on accessibility, and is anyway
> an important SVG accessibility feature. I think that the spec allows the
> browser to just ignore the children of the metadata element and still
> conform.

You're right. We'll try to do that as soon as possible.
Received on Friday, 24 August 2001 11:06:13 UTC

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