- From: Dean Jackson <dean@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:48:44 +1000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>, www-svg@w3.org
On Mon 14 Jun 2004, Ian Hickson wrote: > If a UA finds XLink attributes on an SVG-namespaced element and those > attributes are not allowed per the SVG DTD, should the UA consider the > element to be in error or not? If not, should the UA just ignore the > attributes, or should it attempt to apply XLink semantics to the element? This kindof shows why xlink isn't very useful in SVG. Every case where we use xlink:href has the other xlink attributes hardcoded, and it rarely makes sense to change them (maybe <a> is the best example). If we had time machines, I'd be arguing against using xlink. You propose three choices: 1. element in error 2. ignore 3. apply xlink I'm against 2. I'm not sure which of 3 or 1 is better, but both have problems. Especially on Mobile which won't have an xlink processor and usually is unable to test for incorrect unknown attributes (so can't do 1 either). Maybe 2 is better. What do you suggest?
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