- From: Helder Magalhães <helder.magalhaes@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:42:25 +0100
- To: "Doug Schepers" <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
>> 9. Inconsistent usage of quotes and/or apostrophe in markup [...] > Yes, both single and double quotes are allowed in XML. [2] In code, > this is normally a simple matter of personal preference (I normally use > single quotes in my code because it looks cleaner to me). In cases like > the examples above, it matters. I agree that examples are clearer when > only one quote-delimiter is used, and we do try to encourage the spec > writers to use the double-quotes. Going forward, we will make these > consistent as we find them, but since it's merely editorial, we probably > won't have time for this version of the spec. Thank your for the enlightenment. I didn't found any proof for the single-versus-double quote thing so the link is welcome. :-) > This is a slightly different case, where the use of double vs. single > quotes is a matter of convention to make specification keywords clear. > Again, this is not strictly necessary, but we do strive for consistency. > In this case, we have already made a number of these corrections > (compare SVG 1.2 Tiny to SVG 1.1 Full), but have probably missed quite a > few. It's not trivial to automate this, and it's a time-intensive task, > so we will probably spend our time resolving more critical issues in > this version, and continue to change these instances as we refine the > spec for SVG 2.0 Core. OK, even if leaving as-is is not a problem - of course critical issues should be given more attention. ;-) > Please let us know promptly whether or not this response is satisfactory > to you. Yes, it is satisfactory, thank you. > Regards- > -Doug Schepers Regards, Helder Magalhães
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