Text : fitting elements ( continued )

Inside a <text> structure, one can :

either directly specify the text
or reference the text of another element with the tag <tref>

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG December 1999//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/SVG-19991203.dtd">
<svg width="10cm" height="3cm">
<defs>
    <text id="ReferencedText">
      Referenced character data
    </text>
</defs>
<desc>Example tspan04 - inline vs reference text content</desc>

<text x="1cm" y="1cm" style="font-size:12pt; fill:blue">
Inline character data
</text>
<text x="1cm" y="2cm" style="font-size:12pt; fill:red">
<tref xlink:href="#ReferencedText"/>
</text>
</svg>

Didier Courtaud
The SVG language
Novembre 2001

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