[oXygen-user] Integrating an SVG editor with oXygen

[Eliot Kimber]

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 at 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
>  
> practice innovation
> DE-78259 Mühlhausen ­ Ehingen
> Email: mailto:markus.wiedenmaier at practice-innovation.de
> <mailto:markus.wiedenmaier at practice-innovation.de>
>  

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