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Subject: Re: [office] SVG Issues and Opportunities
Welcome Doug, On 10/15/09 05:52, Doug Schepers wrote: > Hi, ODF Folks- > > Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm Doug Schepers, W3C Team Contact > for the SVG and WebApps Working Groups. I've joined the ODF TC to help > with the integration of SVG, which I hope is a goal with broad sympathy > in this group. I sent a long message to office-comment [1] about the > benefits of this for both ODF and SVG (and Rick Jelliffe sent a much > more succinct one [2]). > > The SVG WG realizes that this is not a one-way street. If there is > missing functionality in SVG that prevents it from being suitable, or > confusion in how best to integrate SVG, then we will work on that on our > side (I'm the editor of 2 specs that might be of interest in this > regard, SVG Integration and SVG Connectors). Great. Thank you. > > One specific challenge in the way that ODF uses SVG today is that it > declares certain attributes of the Draw format as being in the SVG > namespace; per the Namespaces in XML specification, SVG does not > actually namespace its attributes (they are in the null NS), so in some > sense it's not "meaningful" for ODF to do this (though I do understand > the motivation). Well, we are aware of this issue, and ODF actually does not use the namespace URI defined by the SVG specification, but an ODF specific one (urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:svg-compatible:1.0) But, yes, it would be great if we could use some SVG attributes directly. Best regards Michael -- Michael Brauer, Technical Architect Software Engineering StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems GmbH Nagelsweg 55 D-20097 Hamburg, Germany michael.brauer@sun.com http://sun.com/staroffice +49 40 23646 500 http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering
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