Re: [SVG12Mobile]: uDOM SVGElement and Element

Dear Erik and svg wg,
the answer clarifies all my concerns, maybe such kind of inheritance
mechanism is implicit in the DOM/uDOM declaration, but a specific sentence
or example would help readers.

Regards,

Diego

2006/6/15, Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com>:
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> Diego wrote:
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> > Reading the uDOM idl I don't understand if SVGDocument and SVGElement
> > are accessible (in a SVG context) from a Document and Element nodes.
> > In particular, if I create an SVG element through the document
> > (Document interface) as in the following script:
> >
> > Function a()
> > {
> > var mySVGRect = document.createElementNS("SVGNS", "rect");
> >
> > Then can I use the interface SVGElement on it?
> >
> > mySVGRect.id = "IDNameOfSVGNode";
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> Well, first off, "SVGNS" should be "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" but I'll
> assume you meant that in the first place.
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> So if this condition is fulfilled the answer to your question is: yes.
> If you really meant the string "SVGNS" as namespace, then the answer is:
> no, because the element is not an SVG element in that case.
>
> > It seems reasonable to me working in that way in order to ensure the
> > access to svg module from the dom module but it is not clearly
> > declared in the SVG1.2t draft.
>
> See http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/svgudom.html#svg::SVGElement.
> It says that the interface represents an SVG element in the document tree.
> So if you create a valid SVG element with createElementNS then it follows
> that you get this interface on that element.
>
> Please let us know shortly if this does not address your concern.
> /Erik, on behalf of the SVG WG
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