Bug 6007

Summary: WebKit+SVG should have common code to validate uri references
Product: WebKit Reporter: Eric Seidel (no email) <eric>
Component: SVGAssignee: Rob Buis <rwlbuis>
Status: NEW    
Severity: Normal CC: ahmad.saleem792, annevk, cigitia, ian, karlcow
Priority: P4    
Version: 420+   
Hardware: Mac   
OS: OS X 10.4   
URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/struct.html#Head
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 91791    

Eric Seidel (no email)
Reported 2005-12-08 04:01:20 PST
WebKit+SVG should have common code to validate uri references The SVG spec defines exactly what sort of elements can reference other elements in the SVG spec. Although we do some checking, we don't have a nice consistant model. I think finding a nice way to implement this (with a virtual function on SVGElement?) could be a win for both code clarity and spec conformance. For a list of which elements are allowed to map to which others: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/struct.html#Head
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Karl Dubost
Comment 1 2025-12-16 15:42:41 PST
16.1.5. URL reference attributes https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/linking.html#linkRefAttrs URL references are normally specified with an ‘href’ attribute. The value of this attribute forms a reference for the desired resource (or secondary resource, if there is a fragment identifier). The value of the ‘href’ attribute must be a URL. Because it is impractical for any application to check that a value is an URL reference, this specification follows the lead of the URL Specification in this matter and imposes no such conformance testing requirement on SVG authoring tools. An invalid URL does not make an SVG document non-conforming. SVG user agents are only required to process URLs when needed, as specified in Processing of URL references. and https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/linking.html#processingURL A lot of the code in https://searchfox.org/wubkat/source/Source/WebCore/svg/SVGURIReference.cpp
Ahmad Saleem
Comment 2 2025-12-16 17:48:01 PST
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