[tei-council] image encoding comments

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Fri Sep 29 17:32:42 EDT 2006


Syd Bauman wrote:
> This is, I think, a reasonable argument against including SVG in TEI
> P5. However, it is directly counter to a principle of P5 development
> that Council came to at its 2002-01 meeting at KCL. Namely, not to do
> things that others have developed standards for.
I don't buy this. SVG is  a standard for describing vector
graphics. As a side effect, it also defines <svg:image>
to pull in bitmaps; but this is by no means the raison d'etre
of SVG. Inclusion of an external bitmap is a low-level
function which all document markup languages define.
It would be perverse not to follow suit.

> | <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
> |     xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
> |     xmlns:xl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
> | <!-- ... -->
> |             <figure>
> |                 <svg:image xl:href="./duck.jpg" width="30mm" height="90mm"/>
> |             </figure>
>
> is all that much harder 
>   
tell that to DTD people :-}
> SR> There is also the possibility that <graphic> needs some changes,
> SR> in light of the discussion.
>
> What changes do you have in mind? 

It was pointed out that separate @xscale and @yscale
attributes might be appropriate. Some would add a
"rotate" attribute.

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