- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 15:30:10 -0800
- To: Jon Ferraiolo <jferraio@adobe.com>, "Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com>
- Cc: "'xml-dev@xml.org'" <xml-dev@xml.org>, "'www-svg@w3.org'" <www-svg@w3.org>
At 03:11 PM 3/6/00 -0800, Jon Ferraiolo wrote:
>At 03:30 PM 3/6/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>Jon, Thanks for the reply to xml-dev. Could you address any reasons why:
>> <path d="M 100 100 L 200 200"/>
>>Could not be represented as:
>> <path><d>M 100 100 L 200 200</d></path>
>>at least as an alternative format.
Actually, the attribute format does have one advantage. XML 1.0 contains
(IMHO) a design error whereby attribute values are "normalized", i.e the
white space is condensed, line breaks are pulled out, and so on. This
would allow you to write
<path d="
M
100
100
L
200
200
">
and still have it show up in the app with just single space characters.
Sigh. -Tim
Received on Monday, 6 March 2000 18:30:14 UTC