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Re: What is wrong with SVG?

• From: Edd Dumbill <edd@u...>
• To: Don Park <donpark@d...>
• Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 04:46:14 +0000

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 01:58:54PM -0800, Don Park wrote:
> Here is an example:
> 
> <path d="M -9156.6833 4804.3804 l 7.8300 2.4368 2.4277 -0.1274 1.3000 0.1870
> h 0.0069
>   l  0.8736 -1.2764 0.3692 -0.5917 0.0397 -0.0057 0.0221 -0.0328
> 0.6615 -0.0927
>   0.0664 0.0141 0.1335 -0.0199 3.8513 0.8465 2.0401 1.2276 0.5585 -0.2380
>   0.0045 0.0011 1.8395 0.4616 0.9720 -0.1560 0.0404 -0.0409 0.3983 -0.0297
>   ... [387 lines similar to above]
> 
> Is this proper use of XML?  Why on earth would anyone stuff this
> much data into a single attribute? 

It was pointed out at XTech 2000 that this syntax makes processing of
SVG with XSLT somewhat difficult, a point with which I concur.

However, I've not been tracking the SVG development closely, so I am
unaware of the rationale for this (apart from the obvious Postscript-ness
of it).

-- Edd

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