- From: Blaine Brodie <bbrodie@savagesoftware.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:26:43 -0800
- To: www-svg@w3.org, svg-developers@egroups.com
>I wonder if someone can help me. I am trying to figure out what purpose >the ><g> element serves in SVG 1.0. > >I am not asking how to use it. That I understand. At least I think I do. >:) > >But why is the <g> element there at all? Since the <svg> element can be >nested and implicitly groups elements nested within it what is the unique >value that the <g> element adds? > >Am I missing some obvious unique aspect of the <g> element? Or could it >simply be deleted from SVG 1.0 with no loss and nested <svg> elements >serve >the same purpose? The <g> element can be used to apply transformations to its children, but <svg> can not. valid: <g transform="rotate(45)"> ... invalid: <svg transform="rotate(45)">... > > --- Blaine
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