mandatory "d" attribute on <path>

• From: Ben Hutchings <benh@lsl.co.uk>
• Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 15:52:22 +0100 (BST)
• To: www-svg@w3.org
• Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.93.990728154901.7206D-100000@lsla1a>

I am curious as to why the "d" attribute is mandatory for <path>.  If I
want to output an arbitrarily long path, I have to be able to output
child <data> elements.  However, because the "d" attribute is
mandatory, I also have to put some path data (or maybe just an empty
string) on the parent <path> element.  This seems very ugly.

Received on Wednesday, 28 July 1999 10:48:35 UTC