On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, NAGY Endre wrote:
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:40:05 +1100 From: NAGY Endre <Endre_NAGY@...561...> To: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Inkscape-devel] SVG Linking
Bulia
Thanks for responding
I take your point about distinguishing "editing" from "viewing". I was ignorant of the existance of inkview.
To quote my original mail
My purposes are not the rendering of HTML but rather the invocation of a program. Does inkscape support this and how.
My original post was
grasping at a solution for my posted Feature
Request "1070754 - Maintaining Attributes in Users Namespace". In essence, the request was for some capability that allowed for the maintenance of the attributes of a shape that are defined in the namespace of the user (e.g if a line represented a road then I would like to define the name of that road).
Why do I get the sneaking suspicion that you are using Inkscape for diagramming and want to be able to add arbitrary name value pairs to objects rather than using any namespaces in particularly?
HTML was very clever in simple the way it did meta data tags, basically it provided a single tag and two attributes and from there users could create as many of their own name (Author) value (authorname) pairs as they would like by specifying new values for content and name everytime.
<meta content="Author" name="authorname"> <meta content="desc" name="description">
(Dia users have been asking for the ability to tag objects with all kinds of information for ever and that has only confirmed my belief in the need for a meta data system that would be simple and extensible at the user level rather than requiring an extended predefined schema).
You can see OpenOffice.org offers a similar ability to have an unending set of name value pairs
http://books.evc-cit.info/ch02.php#meta-xml-section this screenshot shows it reasonably well the numbered labels are the names and the text entries are the corresponding values, and the popup shows they are arbitrary pairs. http://books.evc-cit.info/figures/ooo.ess.0203.png
Let me use this opportunity to say that I hope parts of the Oasis standardized namespaces could be reused by Inkscape rather than creating more things in the inkscape: namespace. I hope to do more reading soon and recommend what custom tags and markup that it migth make sense to drop in favour of an open and standardised namespace shared by a variety of other applications.
From the perspective of the users of the application that I'm developing, this activity is part of the process of "svg creation" not of "svg use" (by which I mean, analogously, "editing" not "viewing").
Even if my guessing is way off a better less evasive description of what you are actually trying to do, the specific end result you are trying to achieve will better enable the developers to help you than specific example problems. If you are really lucky it might even allow them to indirectly help you by doing things they were planning on doing anyway at some point.
Any thoughts ?
Endre
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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