[SVGMobile12] Question on SVG implementation in an XLink-aware processor

Consider the following markup (assuming that the "svg" and "xlink" namespace 
prefixes are bound to the relevant namespaces):

   <svg:image xlink:href="something.png" xlink:show="replace"
              xlink:actuate="onload"/>

It would seem to me that correct behavior here for a UA that supports both SVG 
and XLink would be to replace the page with something.png when this is parsed 
(as required by the XLink specification), while the correct behavior for a UA 
that supports SVG but not XLink would be to do whatever the description of 
<svg:image> says.  Is that correct?

Note that I don't think the spec needs changes in this regard, since the XLink 
specification is very clear on what the behavior should be in this case.  But I 
just want to make sure that there are no assumptions that the XLink description 
of what should happen is obviated by the fact that SVG describes additional 
semantics for <svg:image>.

-Boris

Received on Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:17:47 UTC