- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 12:47:02 -0000
- To: <www-svg@w3.org>
"Dean Jackson" <dean@w3.org> > Remember also that I'm suggesting it would be very easy for > a search engine to index the text in SVG files. In that case, > reading order isn't always as important. I disagree that this illustrates that at all, whilst it does illustrate it's easy to extract the "text" content of an XML file - I don't think that was ever in doubt, however search engines if they are useful are not such simplistic creatures and need to care about the semantics of the text and so need to understand the Mark-up Language itself. It would be nice if Google returned SVG documents from links to the content (as it does with other empty textual documents), and extracted the title/desc elements for the description it gives, but whilst it could index on a simple text dump of the SVG, it's not something I believe would be of any real use, such methods are discredited. Jim.
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