- From: Thierry Kormann <Thierry.Kormann@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:10:46 +0200
- To: Jon Ferraiolo <jferraio@Adobe.COM>
- cc: Thierry Kormann <Thierry.Kormann@sophia.inria.fr>, www-svg@w3.org
> The main reason for the having attributes in the DOM such as 'width' and > 'height' are so that you can have object-oriented access to the values, > rather than just as strings. Yes, in many cases, string access is > sufficient, but in other cases, there is a lot of value in object-oriented > access. For example, with an SVGLength, you can determine what unit type > was applied without having to write a parser. Do you mean "without parsing the string" ? I'm asking this because a conforming viewer should also support setAttribute so in any case the viewer must have a parser for CSS units, path, transform... You can also imagine to use object-oriented access to set a value but use the getAttribute method to get the value. In that case, the viewer should create a String using the SVGLength. Thierry. -- Thierry Kormann email: Thierry.Kormann@sophia.inria.fr http://www.inria.fr/koala/tkormann/ Koala/Dyade/Bull @ INRIA - Sophia Antipolis
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