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• Subject: Re: SVG and embedded images?
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 19:20:27 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Andrzej Jan Taramina wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if it's possible to embed a jpg or gif image (probably 
> base64 encoded) in an SVG?  If so, what would the tag syntax be for this?
> 
> I read the SVG spec....but it seems that you can only refer to an external 
> bitmapped image.

I'm not an SVG expert but I think you want a "data:" URI. References:

http://uwimp.com/2001/03/w3csvgdata/

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2001Feb/0140.html

http://infomesh.net/2001/03/dataencode/

http://docsrv.caldera.com:8457/cgi-bin/pod2html/URI::data

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt

  Paul Prescod

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