I created a random svg file with Inkscape, a cross-platform svg
drawing app. I created an <artwork>
element with src="pretty.svg"; it displayed inline in the
cross-platform xxe XML editor using my xml2rfc
plugin (but no inline editing of the graphic) and converted to PDF
reasonably well:
I returned to the original subject line,
as I wish to return to the idea behind the original thread.
Figures are not just "nice to have" additions to text.
There are good reasons to include diagrams that would
be impossible to use today. For example, the ITU has come
up with a diagrammatic technique for describing transport
networks (see e.g. G.805 and G.809). Its use is now required
in all new work there, and the technique is not just
descriptive, it is genuinely useful for catching bugs
and as the final word when English language descriptions differ.
Such a technique could not be adopted at the IETF
under the present ID system, as there would be no normative
method of distributing the diagrams.
Y(J)S
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