[Clipart] [Bug 3745] broken files in collection

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------- Additional Comments From sas00003 at btinternet.com  2005-07-11 04:50 -------
Alan Horkan writes:

> > * Unbound prefix. 
> 
> I'm pretty sure every file I've ever created
> for OpenClipart.org has this problem.

No, not at all. Of the 95 files in your pattern collection, 23 are broken due to
containing the null character (U+0000), which is not allowed in XML, but none
have any problem with unbound prefixes.

> I really do not want to see extra markup added
> to ever file for a few crappy renders

It's not every file that has this problem; in fact it's less than 1%. And some
of the files with the unbound prefix problem cannot be displayed by Batik or
Adobe, which I don't consider "crappy" renderers.

Moreover, any problem that causes reasonable XML parsers to choke on the files
needs to be fixed anyway, regardless of what SVG renderers do.

> One of our ancilliary goals is to promote the
> SVG standard and the last thing we want to do
> is allow it to decend into a mess of really bad
> markup like HTML did.

Yes, indeed.  So we should fix bad markup when we find it.

> If we continue to use Batik and Adobe as our
> yardstick and be very conservative about what
> mistakes we tolerate from other crappy renderers
> I'd be fairly happy about it.

I'm not suggesting that we should tolerate outright mistakes in renderers. But
we certainly shouldn't present renderers with bad SVG. Of the five types of
problem that I found, four cause the XML parser to fail (with good reason),
while the other one (path elements without a d attribute) is a violation of the
SVG spec.

          
     
     
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