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Re: BUG: SVG <metadata> namespaces

From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 13:07:54 -0400 (EDT)
To: Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
cc: Amaya List <www-amaya@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0108241307420.13729-100000@tux.w3.org>
Cool - thanks.

Charles

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Irene Vatton wrote:

  > 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.




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