- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:00:53 +0100
- To: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
- CC: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>, SVG public list <www-svg@w3.org>
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 7:01:02 AM, Dirk wrote: (Cameron wrote) DS> In 7. The SVG 'transform' attribute: DS> This specification will also introduce the new presentation DS> attributes ‘transform-origin’, ‘perspective’, ‘perspective-origin’, DS> ‘transform-style’ and ‘backface-visibility’ in the SVG namespace. All DS> new introduced presentation attributes are animateable. DS> These attributes are not in the SVG namespace; rather they're in no DS> namespace (or in the "null" namespace, not sure what's the preferred DS> terminology). I think you can just drop "in the SVG namespace". DS> Can you point me to the section in the SVG specification? This comes from XML (actually, Namespace in XML), not from SVG. DS> In general SVG attributes should be in the SVG namespace, no? No. "A default namespace declaration applies to all unprefixed element names within its scope. Default namespace declarations do not apply directly to attribute names; the interpretation of unprefixed attributes is determined by the element on which they appear. " http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names/#defaulting DS> The DS> question is if presentation attributes do belong to the SVG namespace. No, because they are not prefixed. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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