- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 16:07:51 +0100
- To: Markku Savela <msa@hemuli.tte.vtt.fi>
- CC: www-svg@w3.org
Markku Savela wrote: > > Uhh.. this just prompts me to ask about.. > > > > <image x="50" y="50" width="100" height="100" xlink:href="foo.svg"/> > > Why is there a need for "xlink:" in above? plain "href" should be > enough, "xlink:" seems totally unnecessary! it says that this is not just any old attribute called href - it is the href attribute from the XLink namespace. And thus, it denotes a link - to a general link processor as well as to an SVG-specific processor. > > ...or, is this something brought to us by XML? Yes. -- Chris
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