- From: Helder Magalhães <helder.magalhaes@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:20:30 +0100
- To: SVG WG <www-svg@w3.org>
Hi everyone, This was a suggestion originally motivated while reviewing [1] appendix Q but I thought it deserved a separate thread. Again, it ended up slipping through my TODO stack, so sorry for the delay. ;-) Although the specification recommends against using a DOCTYPE... * "It is not recommended that a DOCTYPE declaration be included in SVG documents." [2] * "Added a note recommending against the use of DOCTYPE declarations in SVG documents." [3] ..., the current specification holds lots of cases where it is still used (just search for "!DOCTYPE" in the full text [4]). As one once said, “example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing” [5]; I'd therefore suggest removing all (or most, at least) DOCTYPE declarations across the document and associated examples. This probably means reworking the SVG images [6] which are (apparently) later embedded into the specification text (and, in many cases, linked to allow direct access). If it helps, I may assemble a patch which tries to implement this idea (I can imagine that it will basically be a replace-in-files with a regular expression, filtered afterward to check if no example is actually about demonstrating the DOCTYPE). :-) Cheers, Helder [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2010Aug/0009.html [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-SVG11-20100622/intro.html#NamespaceAndDTDIdentifiers [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-SVG11-20100622/changes.html#IntroChapter [4] http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.1F2/publish/single-page.html [5] http://thinkexist.com/quotation/example_is_not_the_main_thing_in_influencing/165666.html [6] http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/SVG/profiles/1.1F2/master/images/
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