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SVG Essentials

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Page 8
Example 1-2

To get the SVG example to work in Firefox, I had to add the SVG namespace to the svg element: xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
AUTHOR NOTE: Correct, but not detectable when book was written, because Firefox wasn't available then.

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Page 29
just after the bulleted list and before Example 3-3, add

It is also possible to use one of the color keywords listed in section
4.2 of the SVG specification at
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/types.html#ColorKeywords,
or one of the CSS 2 system color keywords as listed at
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/ui.html#system-colors


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Printed
Page 39
Example 3-13 (code) lacks stroke color values so horizontal lines don't show.

Corrected code:

<line x1="10" y1="15" x2="50" y2="15"
style="stroke: black; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-width: 15;"/>

<line x1="10" y1="45" x2="50" y2="45"
style="stroke: black; stroke-linecap: round; stroke-width: 15;"/>

<line x1="10" y1="75" x2="50" y2="75"
style="stroke: black; stroke-linecap: square; stroke-width: 15;"/>

<!-- guide lines -->
<line x1="10" y1="0" x2="10" y2="100" style="stroke: #999;"/>
<line x1="50" y1="0" x2="50" y2="100" style="stroke: #999;"/>


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Page 42
last line before 'Specifying Colors' section

<line x1="1cm" y1="30" width="50" height="10pt"/>
should be
<line x1="1cm" y1="30" x2="50" y2="10pt"/>

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Printed
Page 45
Remove the angle brackets around the word "style" in the second

sentence under the subhead "Inline Styles."

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Printed
Page 64
Top and Figure 5-8

The first and second code fragments both give height="20" and width="15" with uniform
scaling on each of the axes, yet Figure 5-8 shows a rectangle wider than it is high.

the height and width should be
height="15" and width="20"
for both of those code fragments

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Printed
Page 84
The comments in the program at the bottom of the page should

begin with these lines:

# Convert an elliptical arc parameterized for SVG to an
# elliptical arc based around a central point.


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Printed
Page 85
2nd line in convert_from_svg function

The $phi in the second "my" line should be $pi.

Anonymous   
Printed
Page 97
last line

markerWidth="6" and markerHeight="10"
should be:
markerWidth="4" and markerHeight="8"


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Printed
Page 165
2nd last paragraph

change flood-fill-color to flood-color
change flood-fill-opacity to flood-opacity

Anonymous   
Printed
Page 181
<feFlood>

change "flood-fill-color" to "flood-color"
change "flood-fill-opacity" to "flood-opacity"

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Printed
Page 196
1st line in Example 11-18

The MIME type text/ecmascript is obsolete and should be application/ecmascript according to RFC 4329.

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Printed
Page 196
1st line in enlarge_circle() and shrink_circle() functions

The code "var circle = evt.getTarget();" does not work in Firefox or Opera. The code "var circle = evt.target;" works

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Printed
Page 198
1st line in setScale() function

The line "obj = svgDocument.getElementById..." does not work.
The fix is to put this in the init() function:

if (window.svgDocument == null )
{
svgDocument = evt.target.ownerDocument;
}

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Page 205
1st line in Interacting with an HTML page section

The <embed> element is nonstandard. The standard <object> element should be used instead.
AUTHOR NOTE: Since the time of the book's writing, <object> has become the preferred method of including an SVG graphic in a web page.

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Printed
Page 210
top of page

Eliminate sentence "The numbered callouts in the example
are in conceptual order, not text order."

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Printed
Page 218
Under "Using Perl to Convert Custom Data to SVG"

"One of these is the proprietary format developed by Earth Science Resources, Inc. for
use by their ARC/INFO Geographic Information System"

Should be:

"One of these is the proprietary format developed by Environmental Systems
Research Institute for use by their ArcInfo Geographic Information System."

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Printed
Page 228
Change all occurrences of "UTF8" to "UTF-8".

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Printed
Page 311
2nd to last paragaph

"Cross product" is a fancy way of saying "add up the productes of the coresponding entries in a row and column"...
should be:
"Dot product" is a fancy way of saying "add up the productes of the coresponding entries in a row and column"...

All three occurrences of "cross product" should be "dot product"

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Printed
Page 322
title for Example F-1.

XHTML and SVG in one cocument
should read:
XHTML and SVG in one document

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