<refentry id="svg-svg.element" revision='SVG'>
<?dbhtml filename="svg-svg.html"?>
<refentryinfo>
<pubdate>$Date$</pubdate>
<releaseinfo>$Revision$</releaseinfo>
</refentryinfo>

<refmeta>
<indexterm><primary>elements</primary>
<secondary>svg:svg</secondary></indexterm>
<refentrytitle>svg:svg</refentrytitle>
<refmiscinfo>Element</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>svg:svg</refname>
<refpurpose>&svg-svg.purpose;</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv><title>Synopsis</title>

<para>If the <link linkend="svg.module">SVG Module</link>
is used, <sgmltag>ImageObject</sgmltag>s can
include <sgmltag>svg:svg</sgmltag> graphics.</para>

</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1 condition='ref.description'><title>Description</title>

<para>The
<ulink url="http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/">Scalable Vector Graphics</ulink>
Recommendation from the W3C defines the features and syntax for SVG, a
language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster
graphics in &XML;.</para>

<para>A complete description of SVG is outside the scope of this
reference.</para>

</refsect1>
<refsect1><title>Examples</title>

<informalexample role="example-source">
<programlisting>&svg-svg.example.1.txt;</programlisting>
</informalexample>

&svg-svg.example.seealso.gen;
</refsect1>

</refentry>
