Re: Announcement of an I-D

[MURATA Makoto <murata.makoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Lilley wrote:
> 
> 
> MURATA Makoto wrote:
> > Q1.  If you introduce a media type "image/svg",  you can certainly introduce
> > SVG-specific fragment
> > identifiers. 
> 
> There are two issues here.
> 
> Firstly, since it is defining a media type, it needs to define what the
> fragment identifier syntax is. We use XPointer, but in this release
> restict it to pointing to IDs. This is because we want a spec that is
> fully implemented very rapidly.
> 
> Later versions will probably remove this restriction, once XLink and
> XPointer are more established.

16.2.2 "SVG fragment identifiers" of the latest draft of SVG [1] introduces 
SVG view specifications such as "MyDrawing.svg#svgView(viewBox(0,200,1000,1000)))". 

>16.2.2. SVG fragment identifiers
>
> Shorthand bare name form of addressing (e.g.,
> MyDrawing.svg#MyView). This form of addressing, which 
> allows addressing an SVG element by its ID, is compatible 
> with the fragment addressing mechanism for older versions of 
> HTML and the shorthand bare name formulation in "XML Pointer 
> Language (XPointer)" [XPTR]. (The bare name form of addressing 
> #MyElement is equivalent to the XPointer formulation 
> #xptr(id('MyView')).)
> 
> XPointer-compatible ID reference (e.g.,
> MyDrawing.svg#xptr(id('MyView'))). This form of addressing, 
> which also allows addressing an SVG element by its ID, is 
> compatible with the syntax for referencing IDs in "XML Pointer 
> Language (XPointer)" [XPTR].
> 
> SVG view specification (e.g.,
> MyDrawing.svg#svgView(viewBox(0,200,1000,1000))). This form of
> addressing specifies the desired view of the document (e.g., 
> the region of the document to view, the initial zoom level) 
> completely within the SVG fragment specification. The contents 
> of the SVG view specification are the five parameter specifications, 
> viewBox(...), preserveAspectRatio(...), transform(...), 
> allowZoomAndPan(...) and viewTarget(...), whose parameters have 
> the same meaning as the corresponding attributes on a <view> element.
> 


Chris Lilley wrote:
> 
> I would like to understand what you mean by "SVG fragment identifier"
> before being able to answer how I feel. I need to understand your
> question better first.

Let me reformulate my question.  Suppose that I have an XHTML document.  
The first subsection of the second section has an embedded SVG.  

I would like to use an XPointer to specify "the SVG in the first subsection 
of the second section".  Then, I would like to obtain a region of this SVG 
by using an SVG view specficiation such as svgView(viewBox(0,200,1000,1000))).

I would like to combine the XPointer and the SVG view specfication to form a 
fragment identifier.  I think I cannot do this, since SVG view speficiations 
require image/svg and XPointer requires text/xml or application/xml (or */*-xml).  
Am I right?

#Probably, I am repeating the debate Gavin did long time ago.


[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/linking.html#LinksIntoSVG

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