RE: SVGT 1.2: SVG fragment identifiers

Hi, Maciej-

Thanks for your comment. Chris has answered most of this email, but there
was a further change that I wanted to inform you of.

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
| 
| "When a source document performs a link into an SVG document via an  
| HTML [HTML4] anchor element (i.e., <a href=...> element in HTML) or  
| an XLink specification [XLINK], then the SVG fragment identifier  
| shall specify the initial view into the SVG document, as follows:
| 
| *     If no SVG fragment identifier is provided (e.g, the specified  
| IRI did not contain a "#" character, such as MyDrawing.svg), 
| then the  
| initial view into the SVG document shall be established using the  
| view specification attributes (i.e., viewBox, etc.) on the 'svg'  
| element.
| *     If the SVG fragment identifier addresses any element , such as  
| MyDrawing.svg#rectId), then the document defined by the rootmost svg  
| element shall be displayed in the viewport using the view  
| specification attributes on the rootmost svg element. "
| 
| Issues:
| 
| 1) Are these points actually calling for different behavior? What is  
| the difference between "the initial view into the SVG document shall  
| be established using the view specification attributes (i.e.,  
| viewBox, etc.) on the 'svg' element" and "the document 
| defined by the  
| rootmost svg element shall be displayed in the viewport using the  
| view specification attributes on the rootmost svg element."? Those  
| sound like they would be the same initial view to me. Therefore it  
| seems like fragment identifiers that address any element have no  
| effect have no effect.

You're right, this is clearly a duplication and a mistake. We have corrected
the second point (for bare name fragment identifiers) to indicate that if
the element is found, the viewbox is adjusted to center on that element.

If after reviewing the wording in the next public draft of the spec your
concerns are not satisfied, please respond promptly.

Thanks-
Doug, on behalf of the SVG WG

Received on Friday, 16 June 2006 04:58:32 UTC