Re: [office] SVG Issues and Opportunities

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

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

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