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SVG Template 1.0, Part 2: Language

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Abstract

This is a template for an SVG Module. Please explain the use cases and needs that this module meets. This specification provides magical, transformative, and eschaton-immanentizing functionality for SVG.

Although originally designed for use in SVG, some aspects of this specification are defined in XML and are accessed via presentation properties, and therefore could be used in other environments, such as HTML styled with CSS and XSL:FO.

This document defines the markup used by SVG Template.

Status of This Document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. The latest status of this document series is maintained at the W3C.

This document is the first public working draft of this specification. There is an accompanying SVG Template 1.0, Part 1: Primer that lists the ways SVG Template may be used.

This document has been produced by the W3C SVG Working Group as part of the W3C Graphics Activity within the Interaction Domain.

We explicitly invite comments on this specification. Please send them to www-svg@w3.org (archives), the public email list for issues related to vector graphics on the Web. Acceptance of the archiving policy is requested automatically upon first post to either list. To subscribe to this list, please send an email to www-svg-request@w3.org with the word subscribe in the subject line.

The latest information regarding patent disclosures related to this document is available on the Web. As of this publication, the SVG Working Group are not aware of any royalty-bearing patents they believe to be essential to SVG.

Publication of this document does not imply endorsement by the W3C membership. A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/. W3C publications may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite a W3C Working Draft as anything other than a work in progress.


How to read this document and give feedback

This draft of SVG Template introduces new Template syntax and markup for the SVG language. One of the goals is that this specification can be re-used more easily by other specifications that want to have advanced Template features. This specification introduces syntax that may not be backwards compatible with older SVG User Agents, and the use of this syntax should be accompanied by a fallback using the 'switch' element.

The main purpose of this document is to encourage public feedback. The best way to give feedback is by sending an email to www-svg@w3.org. Please include some kind of keyword that identifies the area of the specification the comment is referring to in the subject line of your message (e.g "Section X.Y - Foo attribute values" or "Template Functionality"). If you have comments on multiple areas of this document, then it is probably best to split those comments into multiple messages.

The public are welcome to comment on any aspect in this document, but there are a few areas in which the SVG Working Group are explicitly requesting feedback. These areas are noted in place within this document. There is also a specific area related to the specification that is listed here:

Contents

  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. RelaxNG Schema
  3. 3. DOM interfaces
    1. 3.1. Interface RandomInterface
  4. 4. References
    1. 4.1. Normative References
    2. 4.2. Informative References
  5. 5. Acknowledgments

Introduction

Describe the technology and specification here.

Note that even though this specification references parts of SVG 1.1 it does not require a complete SVG 1.1 implementation.

This document is normative.

This document contains explicit conformance criteria that overlap with some RNG definitions in requirements. If there is any conflict between the two, the explicit conformance criteria are the definitive reference.

RelaxNG Schema for SVG Template 1.0

The schema for SVG Template 1.0 is written in RelaxNG [RelaxNG], a namespace-aware schema language that uses the datatypes from XML Schema Part 2 [Schema2]. This allows namespaces and modularity to be much more naturally expressed than using DTD syntax. The RelaxNG schema for SVG Filter 1.2 may be imported by other RelaxNG schemas, or combined with other schemas in other languages into a multi-namespace, multi-grammar schema using Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language [NVDL].

Unlike a DTD, the schema used for validation is not hardcoded into the document instance. There is no equivalent to the DOCTYPE declaration. Simply point your editor or other validation tool to the IRI of the schema (or your local cached copy, as you prefer).

The RNG is under construction, and only the individual RNG snippets are available at this time. They have not yet been integrated into a functional schema. The individual RNG files are available here.

DOM interfaces

The interfaces below will be made available in a IDL file for an upcoming draft.

The following interfaces are defined below: RandomInterface.



Interface RandomInterface

The RandomInterface interface corresponds to the 'RandomInterface' element.



IDL Definition
interface RandomInterface : SVGElement { 
	  readonly attribute InterfaceString foo;
	};


Attributes
readonly InterfaceString foo
Corresponds to attribute bar on the given 'Random' element.

References

Normative References

[RFC2119]
Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels, S. Bradner, March 1997.
Available at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119.
[SVG11]
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1, J. Ferraiolo, 藤沢 淳 (Fujisawa Jun), D. Jackson, eds. World Wide Web Consortium, 14 January 2003.
This edition of SVG 1.1 is http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-SVG11-20030114/.
The latest edition of SVG 1.1 is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/.
[SVGT12]
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2, O. Andersson, R. Berjon, E. Dahlström, A. Emmons, J. Ferraiolo, A. Grasso, V. Hardy, S. Hayman, D. Jackson, C. Lilley, C. McCormack, A. Neumann, C. Northway, A. Quint, N. Ramani, D. Schepers, A. Shellshear, eds. World Wide Web Consortium, 22 December 2008.
This edition of SVG Tiny 1.2 is http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-SVGTiny12-20081222/.
The latest edition of SVG Tiny 1.2 is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/.

Informative References

[NVDL]
Information Technology — Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) — Part 4: Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language: ISO/IEC FDIS 19757-4:2005(E), International Organization for Standardization, December 2005.
Available at http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0694.pdf.
[SCHEMA2]
XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition. P. Biron, A. Malhotra, eds. World Wide Web Consortium, 28 October 2004. (See also Processing XML 1.1 documents with XML Schema 1.0 processors [XML11-SCHEMA].)
This edition of XML Schema Part 2 is http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/.
The latest edition of XML Schema Part 2 is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/.

Acknowledgments

The editors would like to acknowledge and thank the following people for substantive aid with this specification: .