- From: Dean Jackson <dean@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:15:47 +1000
- To: Sigurd Lerstad <sigler@bredband.no>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On Fri 27 Jun 2003, Sigurd Lerstad wrote: > > Hello, > > Is specifying the xlink prefix with a namespace uri with xmlns optional in > svg? No. It should be there if you use the href attribute on any element. > On the adobe site, there are a lot of svg files which use xlink:href > without first declaring xmlns:xlink=http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink That's because we screwed up SVG 1.0 and forgot to add xmlns:xlink to the DTD, which meant that in order to be valid you had to leave it off. We fixed it in an erratum, so all should be ok now! Dean
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