On Jun 5, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Chris Lilley wrote:

I agree that ICC named colours is the correct way to go here.


JAC> The latter is probably the primary way to reliably and portably

JAC> denote spot colors, but SVG hasn't integrated direct use of them yet.


In fact, SVG does have named colour support

http://dev.w3.org/SVG/modules/color/master/SVGColor.html#named


Well...

I'd say "may" or perhaps "may soon have"

That is from:

SVG Color 1.2, Part 2: Language
W3C Working Draft 

1.1 was also going to have <solidColor>  :-)