- From: Peter Sorotokin <psorotok@adobe.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:33:03 -0800
- To: Craig Northway <craign@cisra.canon.com.au>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, www-svg@w3.org
At 11:59 AM 11/30/2004 +1100, Craig Northway wrote: >Ian, > >Ian Hickson wrote: > >>On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Craig Northway wrote: >> >> >>>>>This has a number of problems. >>>>> >>>>>- It makes it much harder to use tools like XSLT. >>>>> >>>>That's an XSLT limitation, and should not restrict the SVG group from >>>>making a good quality language. >>>> >>>I think that making a good language would include making one that can be >>>operated on easily by existing tools. I think that complex attribute >>>syntaxes should be avoided because they significantly increase >>>implementation complexity. >>> >> >>I honestly don't see that a complex element structure is better than a >>complex attribute syntax. >> >I think that an element structure in this case is better than a complex >attribute syntax because it shares a significant similarity with the >filter effects feature. It is also easier to script and possible to animate individual parts of it; it is also easier to reuse it. Peter >Craig
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