- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:08:25 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On Saturday, December 10, 2005, 9:12:21 AM, Ian wrote: IH> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Chris Lilley wrote: >> >> No, the spec lists all the reference restrictions, ie constraints, that >> are placed on IRIS for those elements that make links of some sort. That >> is why the secton has the title "14.1.3 Reference Restrictions". IH> So there is no constraint put on any linking mechanism in the SVG spec IH> preventing them from referring to elements in other SVG document fragments IH> in the same document, or to elements outside the current SVG document IH> fragment in the same document? That isn't what I said, no. I did not say that there were no constraints whatsoever. I said that the specific constraint you cited was not one that any svg tiny 1.2 element had. If an element is constrained to point into the current svg document fragment it is constrained to constrained to point into the current svg document fragment. Which means it cannot point outside the current svg document fragment. That appears to be simple logic. If an element can point to an random location then it can point to any random location, which includes pointing to parts of the current document, which includes those parts both inside and outside the current svg document fragment. >> However, I can see that you might have been misled by this text in the >> second paragraph of that section >> >> "The following possibilities exist in SVG. A referencing element >> supports one or more of these possibilities." >> >> This would be better as >> >> "The following reference restrictions exist in SVG. A referencing >> element may be subject to one or more of these restrictions. IH> That would certainly correct the factual inaccuracy of the spec (and would IH> satisfy my request), but I do not believe it would result in a spec that IH> says what you want it to say. Okay, well we can certainly look at correcting that. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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