For DITA 1.3 we are planning to include a built-in SVG domain. The proposal is currently at stage 3 (meaning the proposed specification changes are under review by TC members). The proposed design provides a specialization of <foreign> named <svg_container>. <svg_container> may then contain <svg:svg> or <svgref>, which is a reference to <svg> elements held in non-DITA documents. For reuse you have two options with this design: 1. Use normal conref for <svg_container> 2. Use <svgref> to use SVG markup directly from non-DITA documents. Cheers, Eliot On 6/23/13 4:56 PM, "practice innovation" <info@practice-innovation.de> wrote:
Hi Bob,
I saw George already answered to your question this early morning.
With the extension George mentioned you are able to edit embedded SVG images too. So if you add an empty SVG-Element to your content and execute that function, you are able to create a new SVG image. That¹s not nice at the moment, but it¹s not a hard work enhancing this functionality that way. This functionality works with any SVG editor (Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator are used in my projects) and it works with any XML flavor which supports embedded SVG (not DITA only). SVG images are always embedded to your XML content file and aren¹t referenced to file system.
Our first thinking of implementing this extension was a reuse of existing images in different contexts. You want to create one single image, enhance it and use it in different manners. As this SVG is embedded we don¹t think about any reuse. Perhaps in DITA it could make sense to enhance the reuse potential by using conref functionality, but this of course depends on the requirements, concepts and processes.
I¹m not sure about your use case(s). Could you provide more information, please.
Best Regards Markus Wiedenmaier
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