- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:06:38 +0200
- To: James Bentley <James.Bentley@guideworkstv.com>
- Cc: "'www-svg@w3.org'" <www-svg@w3.org>
James Bentley wrote: > Please consider allowing 'tref' elements to reference 'switch' elements. Our > current product has a need to provide conditional text based on resources > available on the platform (i.e. 'externalResourcesRequired'). In this > manner, > we can support our conditional text insertion, and inherit the proper > styling. In SVG 1.1 tref can reference *any* element, and its full textual content will be used (without the markup). I assume that what you want is for switch to do its conditional processing before tref does its inclusion, otherwise you get all of switch's content, right? The problem I see with this is that you if you take into account switch you might as well take into account display, or foreignObject, or a variety of other things (which'll break backcompat) -- special-casing for switch feels a bit wrong. Also, the functionality needed for tref to extract the text is already needed by DOM's textContent attribute, so it's reusing existing code. -- Robin Berjon
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