Re: DiaRenderScript plug-in (was Re: applying custom styles )

[Ron Wilson <wilsonronl gmail com>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:00 AM,  <dia-list-request gnome org> wrote:
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:58:14 +0100
> From: Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>
>
> At 11.11.2010 15:39, niklas | brueckenschlaeger wrote:
> >     and the rendering information,
> >     which is exactly what I need, but the DTD doesn't say anything about
> >     properties / attributes. Is that valid?
> This is boon and bane of how property serialization implmentation is no
> central management of property details, but every object plug-in can extend
> the format specification with it's needs.
> Manually maintaining a DTD does not look reasonable to me and up until now
> I never got around to autonmatically generate is with a dedicated plug-in.
......
> Yeah, intentionally. The format is not finalized or released so the DTD
> will change without notice or compatibility concerns.

Is there some reason a DTD is needed? I do recall that the W3C SVG
working group decided to not issue a DTD for SVG. As I recall, their
reasoning can be summarised as "the DTD would be extremely complex".
As far as I know, SVG gets along quite well without a DTD.