Re: standards checking SVG output

[sfeam <sf...@us...>]

On Monday, 30 January 2017 11:55:07 PM pl...@pi... wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in doing some standards checking I found the leading line in gnuplots 
> SVG 'mousing' output has errors.
> 
> <script language="javaScript" TYPE="text/javascript" >
> 
> xml requires lower case. so 'type' not 'TYPE'
> 
> also language should be "text/javascript"  too and now is js by default 
> so not required by current std. , though specifying  may be good to 
> cover all bases.
> 
> Unless this has been carefully crafted to work on a maximum number of 
> browsers, it would presumably be best to stick as closely as possible to 
> standards.

The line you quote is only output if the terminal option "standalone"
is selected, right?  If you generate for display inside a web page you
get a line like this instead: 
   <script type="text/javascript" xlink:href="./gnuplot_svg.js"/>

Did your standards check catch anything else?
Is there an on-line validation tool that is reasonably current
(the ones I know from a few years ago have all gone defunct).

Anyhow I'm confused. If you open the file in a web browser isn't
the line being read according to HTML standards (case insensitive)
rather than xml standards (case sensitive)?  I don't mind changing
it but I would like to understand better what the target standard is.


	Ethan