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Designing SVG Web Graphics
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Designing SVG Web Graphics

by Andrew H. Watt
September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
11h 42m
English
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Understanding the <svg> Element and Visual Components

As I have indicated in earlier chapters, you can nest <svg> elements within an outer <svg> element. In some senses, that nesting functionally does the same thing as using an <image> element to import separate SVG files, each nested within its own outer <svg> element.

One use of such nested <svg> elements is as a grouping element. Another is for use as independent visual components. Because the <svg> element that ultimately is nested can be used as the outer <svg> element of a separate component during testing, you can develop all the content of the <svg> element as a separate document fragment.

In a team setting, assuming that the size and other relevant parameters of the (to be) nested ...

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