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19 July, 2001
Expanded Table of Contents
Expanded Table of Contents
Copyright notice
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W3C Software Copyright Notice and License
1 Introduction
1.1 About SVG
1.2 SVG MIME type, file name extension and Macintosh filetype
1.3 SVG Namespace, Public Identifier and System Identifier
1.4 Compatibility with Other Standards Efforts
1.5 Terminology
1.6 Definitions
2 Concepts
2.1 Explaining the name: SVG
2.2 Important SVG concepts
2.3 Options for using SVG in Web pages
3 Rendering Model
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The painters model
3.3 Rendering Order
3.4 How groups are rendered
3.5 How elements are rendered
3.6 Types of graphics elements
3.6.1 Painting shapes and text
3.6.2 Painting raster images
3.7 Filtering painted regions
3.8 Clipping, masking and object opacity
3.9 Parent Compositing
4 Basic Data Types and Interfaces
4.1 Basic data types
4.2 Recognized color keyword names
4.3 Basic DOM interfaces
5 Document Structure
5.1 Defining an SVG document fragment: the
'svg'
element
5.1.1 Overview
5.1.2 The
'svg'
element
5.2 Grouping: the
'g'
element
5.2.1 Overview
5.2.2 The
'g'
element
5.3 References and the
'defs'
element
5.3.1 Overview
5.3.2 URI reference attributes
5.3.3 The
'defs'
element
5.4 The
'desc'
and
'title'
elements
5.5 The
'symbol'
element
5.6 The
'use'
element
5.7 The
'image'
element
5.8 Conditional processing
5.8.1 Conditional processing overview
5.8.2 The
'switch'
element
5.8.3 The
requiredFeatures
attribute
5.8.4 The
requiredExtensions
attribute
5.8.5 The
systemLanguage
attribute
5.9 Specifying whether external resources are required for proper rendering
5.10 Common attributes
5.10.1 Attributes common to all elements:
id
and
xml:base
5.10.2 The
xml:lang
and
xml:space
attributes
5.11 DOM interfaces
6 Styling
6.1 SVG's styling properties
6.2 Usage scenarios for styling
6.3 Alternative ways to specify styling properties
6.4 Specifying properties using the presentation attributes
6.5 Entity definitions for the presentation attributes
6.6 Styling with XSL
6.7 Styling with CSS
6.8 Case sensitivity of property names and values
6.9 Facilities from CSS and XSL used by SVG
6.10 Referencing external style sheets
6.11 The
'style'
element
6.12 The
class
attribute
6.13 The
style
attribute
6.14 Specifying the default style sheet language
6.15 Property inheritance
6.16 The scope/range of styles
6.17 User agent style sheet
6.18 Aural style sheets
6.19 DOM interfaces
7 Coordinate Systems, Transformations and Units
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The initial viewport
7.3 The initial coordinate system
7.4 Coordinate system transformations
7.5 Nested transformations
7.6 The
transform
attribute
7.7 The
viewBox
attribute
7.8 The
preserveAspectRatio
attribute
7.9 Establishing a new viewport
7.10 Units
7.11 Object bounding box units
7.12 DOM interfaces
8 Paths
8.1 Introduction
8.2 The
'path'
element
8.3 Path Data
8.3.1 General information about path data
8.3.2 The "moveto" commands
8.3.3 The "closepath" command
8.3.4 The "lineto" commands
8.3.5 The curve commands
8.3.6 The cubic Bézier curve commands
8.3.7 The quadratic Bézier curve commands
8.3.8 The elliptical arc curve commands
8.3.9 The grammar for path data
8.4 Distance along a path
8.5 DOM interfaces
9 Basic Shapes
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The
'rect'
element
9.3 The
'circle'
element
9.4 The
'ellipse'
element
9.5 The
'line'
element
9.6 The
'polyline'
element
9.7 The
'polygon'
element
9.8 The grammar for points specifications in
'polyline'
and
'polygon'
elements
9.9 DOM interfaces
10 Text
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Characters and their corresponding glyphs
10.3 Fonts, font tables and baselines
10.4 The
'text'
element
10.5 The
'tspan'
element
10.6 The
'tref'
element
10.7 Text layout
10.7.1 Text layout introduction
10.7.2 Setting the inline-progression-direction
10.7.3 Glyph orientation within a text run
10.7.4 Relationship with bidirectionality
10.8 Text rendering order
10.9 Alignment properties
10.9.1 Text alignment properties
10.9.2 Baseline alignment properties
10.10 Font selection properties
10.11 Spacing properties
10.12 Text decoration
10.13 Text on a path
10.13.1 Introduction to text on a path
10.13.2 The
'textPath'
element
10.13.3 Text on a path layout rules
10.14 Alternate glyphs
10.15 White space handling
10.16 Text selection and clipboard operations
10.17 DOM interfaces
11 Painting: Filling, Stroking and Marker Symbols
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Specifying paint
11.3 Fill Properties
11.4 Stroke Properties
11.5 Controlling visibility
11.6 Markers
11.6.1 Introduction
11.6.2 The
'marker'
element
11.6.3 Marker properties
11.6.4 Details on how markers are rendered
11.7 Rendering properties
11.7.1 Color interpolation properties:
'color-interpolation'
and
'color-interpolation-filters'
11.7.2 The
'color-rendering'
property
11.7.3 The
'shape-rendering'
property
11.7.4 The
'text-rendering'
property
11.7.5 The
'image-rendering'
property
11.8 Inheritance of painting properties
11.9 DOM interfaces
12 Color
12.1 Introduction
12.2 The
'color'
property
12.3 Color profile descriptions
12.3.1 Overview of color profile descriptions
12.3.2 Alternative ways for defining a color profile description
12.3.3 The
'color-profile'
element
12.3.4
@color-profile
when using CSS styling
12.3.5
'color-profile'
property
12.4 DOM interfaces
13 Gradients and Patterns
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Gradients
13.2.1 Introduction
13.2.2 Linear gradients
13.2.3 Radial gradients
13.2.4 Gradient stops
13.3 Patterns
13.4 DOM interfaces
14 Clipping, Masking and Compositing
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Simple alpha compositing
14.3 Clipping paths
14.3.1 Introduction
14.3.2 The initial clipping path
14.3.3 The
'overflow'
and
'clip'
properties
14.3.4 Clip to viewport vs. clip to
viewBox
14.3.5 Establishing a new clipping path
14.4 Masking
14.5 Object and group opacity: the
'opacity'
property
14.6 DOM interfaces
15 Filter Effects
15.1 Introduction
15.2 An example
15.3 The
'filter'
element
15.4 The
'filter'
property
15.5 Filter effects region
15.6 Accessing the background image
15.7 Filter primitives overview
15.7.1 Overview
15.7.2 Common attributes
15.7.3 Filter primitive subregion
15.8 Light source elements and properties
15.8.1 Introduction
15.8.2 Light source
'feDistantLight'
15.8.3 Light source
'fePointLight'
15.8.4 Light source
'feSpotLight'
15.8.5 The
'lighting-color'
property
15.9 Filter primitive
'feBlend'
15.10 Filter primitive
'feColorMatrix'
15.11 Filter primitive
'feComponentTransfer'
15.12 Filter primitive
'feComposite'
15.13 Filter primitive
'feConvolveMatrix'
15.14 Filter primitive
'feDiffuseLighting'
15.15 Filter primitive
'feDisplacementMap'
15.16 Filter primitive
'feFlood'
15.17 Filter primitive
'feGaussianBlur'
15.18 Filter primitive
'feImage'
15.19 Filter primitive
'feMerge'
15.20 Filter primitive
'feMorphology'
15.21 Filter primitive
'feOffset'
15.22 Filter primitive
'feSpecularLighting'
15.23 Filter primitive
'feTile'
15.24 Filter primitive
'feTurbulence'
15.25 DOM interfaces
16 Interactivity
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Complete list of supported events
16.3 User interface events
16.4 Pointer events
16.5 Processing order for user interface events
16.6 The
'pointer-events'
property
16.7 Magnification and panning
16.8 Cursors
16.8.1 Introduction to cursors
16.8.2 The
'cursor'
property
16.8.3 The
'cursor'
element
16.9 DOM interfaces
17 Linking
17.1 Links out of SVG contents: the
'a'
element
17.2 Linking into SVG content: URI fragments and SVG views
17.2.1 Introduction: URI fragments and SVG views
17.2.2 SVG fragment identifiers
17.2.3 Predefined views: the
'view'
element
17.3 DOM interfaces
18 Scripting
18.1 Specifying the scripting language
18.1.1 Specifying the default scripting language
18.1.2 Local declaration of a scripting language
18.2 The
'script'
element
18.3 Event handling
18.4 Event attributes
18.5 DOM interfaces
19 Animation
19.1 Introduction
19.2 Animation elements
19.2.1 Overview
19.2.2 Relationship to SMIL Animation
19.2.3 Animation elements example
19.2.4 Attributes to identify the target element for an animation
19.2.5 Attributes to identify the target attribute or property for an animation
19.2.6 Attributes to control the timing of the animation
19.2.7 Attributes that define animation values over time
19.2.8 Attributes that control whether animations are additive
19.2.9 Inheritance
19.2.10 The
'animate'
element
19.2.11 The
'set'
element
19.2.12 The
'animateMotion'
element
19.2.13 The
'animateColor'
element
19.2.14 The
'animateTransform'
element
19.2.15 Elements, attributes and properties that can be animated
19.3 Animation using the SVG DOM
19.4 DOM interfaces
20 Fonts
20.1 Introduction
20.2 Overview of SVG fonts
20.3 The
'font'
element
20.4 The
'glyph'
element
20.5 The
'missing-glyph'
element
20.6 Glyph selection rules
20.7 The
'hkern'
and
'vkern'
elements
20.8 Describing a font
20.8.1 Overview of font descriptions
20.8.2 Alternative ways for providing a font description
20.8.3 The
'font-face'
element
20.9 DOM interfaces
21 Metadata
21.1 Introduction
21.2 The
'metadata'
element
21.3 An example
21.4 DOM interfaces
22 Backwards Compatibility
23 Extensibility
23.1 Foreign namespaces and private data
23.2 Embedding foreign object types
23.3 The
'foreignObject'
element
23.4 An example
23.5 Adding private elements and attributes to the DTD
23.6 DOM interfaces
Appendix A: DTD
Appendix B: SVG Document Object Model (DOM)
B.1 SVG DOM Overview
B.2 Naming Conventions
B.3 Interface
SVGException
B.4 Feature strings for the
hasFeature
method call
B.5 Relationship with DOM2 events
B.6 Relationship with DOM2 CSS object model (CSS OM)
B.6.1 Introduction
B.6.2 User agents that do not support styling with CSS
B.6.3 User agents that support styling with CSS
B.6.4 Extended interfaces
B.7 Invalid values
Appendix C: IDL Definitions
Appendix D: Java Language Binding
Appendix E: ECMAScript Language Binding
Appendix F: Implementation Requirements
F.1 Introduction
F.2 Error processing
F.3 Version control
F.4 Clamping values which are restricted to a particular range
F.5
'path'
element implementation notes
F.6 Elliptical arc implementation notes
F.6.1 Elliptical arc syntax
F.6.2 Out-of-range parameters
F.6.3 Parameterization alternatives
F.6.4 Conversion from center to endpoint parameterization
F.6.5 Conversion from endpoint to center parameterization
F.6.6 Correction of out-of-range radii
F.7 Text selection implementation notes
F.8 Printing implementation notes
Appendix G: Conformance Criteria
G.1 Introduction
G.2 Conforming SVG Document Fragments
G.3 Conforming SVG Stand-Alone Files
G.4 Conforming SVG Included Document Fragments
G.5 Conforming SVG Generators
G.6 Conforming SVG Interpreters
G.7 Conforming SVG Viewers
Appendix H: Accessibility Support
H.1 WAI Accessibility Guidelines
H.2 SVG Content Accessibility Guidelines
Appendix I: Internationalization Support
I.1 Introduction
I.2 Internationalization and SVG
I.3 SVG Internationalization Guidelines
Appendix J: Minimizing SVG File Sizes
Appendix K: References
K.1 Normative references
K.2 Informative references
Appendix L: Element Index
Appendix M: Attribute Index
Appendix N: Property Index
Appendix O: Index
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