Re: [Inkscape-devel] Plain svg format?

Having rdf: elements without declaring the namespace URI for this prefix is obviously a bug. We must either drop the elements or add the declaration. By the way the declaration may reside right in the rdf:metadata element, it doesn't have to necessarily be at the top level.

Generally, "plain SVG" makes sense in two situations:

when you need to save some space,

this case could/should be covered by SVGZ and or Mobile/Tiny SVG

or when you have to deal with some old non-namespace-aware XML technology. The first consideration is legitimate, but as for the

My perception of 'Regular SVG' has always been to take it as being a promise not to include any (Sodipodi or) Inkscape specific markup.

- Alan