- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:26:13 +0900
- To: "www-svg@w3.org" <www-svg@w3.org>, "Johannes Roessel" <johannes.roessel@uni-rostock.de>
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:09:02 +0900, Johannes Roessel <johannes.roessel@uni-rostock.de> wrote: > In tracing an issue yesterday why a specific SVG image won't render in > some renderers I noticed that it used the namespace prefix “l:” for > XLink instead of the more common “xlink:”. SVG being XML, this shouldn't > be much of a problem, theoretically. However, the W3C validator > complains about that too and several SVG renderers, including rsvg and > IE 9 Preview won't render the image when the namespace uses a prefix > different from “xlink:”. > > I didn't find anything in the specification that discourages or forbids > the use of other namespace prefixes. Is there anything on that? If the > prefix doesn't *have* to be “xlink:”, then perhaps a test case for that > behavior might be good to have, considering that several renderers have > problems with that. Is this IE9 in HTML or XML mode? (For HTML the prefix is fixed.) -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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