Re: Towards resolution of SVG 1.2 Flowing text

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>ROC> Right OK, but if you agree SVG text is purely presentational and 
>ROC> flowPara and flowDiv have identical presentation, then why not remove
>ROC> flowPara in favour of flowDiv?
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>They have different content models. Actually, originally you had to have
>a flowDiv even if there was a single flowPara;  but there was pushback
>on that. Regardless, flowDiv  has no inline children and flowPara has
>all inline children.
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Since HTML DIVs can contain inline elements, I think authors are going 
to be surprised and annoyed that SVG flowDivs can't. I can't seem to 
find any discussion of why this restriction is so important, can you 
point me to something?

Maybe calling it <flowLines> instead of <flowPara> would be a slight 
improvement, to distinguish it from the semantics-carrying HTML <P>.

Rob

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