This appendix is normative.
This appendix provides an introduction to the SVG DOM and discusses the relationship of the SVG DOM with the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Specification [DOM2]. The specific SVG DOM interfaces that correspond to particular sections of the SVG specification are defined at the end of corresponding chapter in this specification.
The SVG DOM is compatible with the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Specification [DOM2]. In particular:
A DOM application can use the hasFeature method of the DOMImplementation interface to verify that the interfaces listed in this section are supported. The list of available interfaces is provided in section Feature strings for the hasFeature method call.
The SVG DOM follows similar naming conventions to the Document Object Model HTML [DOM2-HTML].
All names are defined as one or more English words concatenated together to form a single string. Property or method names start with the initial keyword in lowercase, and each subsequent word starts with a capital letter. For example, a property that returns document meta information such as the date the file was created might be named "fileDateCreated". In the ECMAScript binding, properties are exposed as properties of a given object. In Java, properties are exposed with get and set methods.
For attributes with the CDATA data type, the case of the return value is that given in the source document.
This exception is raised when a specific SVG operation is impossible to perform.
exception SVGException {
unsigned short code;
};
// SVGExceptionCode
const unsigned short SYNTAX_ERR = 0;
const unsigned short SVG_INVALID_MODIFICATION_ERR = 1;
const unsigned short SVG_NO_GRAPHICS_ELEMENTS = 2;
const unsigned short SVG_MATRIX_NOT_INVERTABLE = 3;
The SVGDOMImplementation interface extends the
DOMImplementation interface with a method for creating an
SVG document instance.
interface SVGDOMImplementation : DOMImplementation {
SVGDocument createSVGDocument(in DOMString title);
};
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The feature strings that are available for the hasFeature method call that is part of the SVG DOM's support for the DOMImplementation interface defined in [DOM2-CORE] are the same features strings available for the system-required attribute that is available for many SVG elements.
The version number for the hasFeature method call is "1".
This section describes the relationship between the SVG DOM and
the Document Object Model CSS [DOM2-CSS] described in the
[DOM2] specification.
For the purposes of aural media, SVG represents a
CSS-stylable XML grammar. For user agents that
support aural styling
[CSS2-AURAL],
all of the interfaces defined in
[DOM2-CSS]
which apply to aural properties must be supported
in the DOM.
For visual media [CSS2-VISUAL], the SVG DOM extends [DOM2-CSS].
The SVG DOM supports all of the required interfaces defined in [DOM2-CSS]. All of the interfaces that are optional for [DOM2-CSS] are also optional for the SVG DOM.
The SVG DOM defines the following SVG-specific custom property interfaces, all of which are mandatory for SVG user agents:
[DOM2-CSS] defines a set of extended interfaces [DOM2-CSS-EI]. The following table specifies the type of CSSValue [DOM2-CSSVALUE] used to represent each SVG property that applies to visual media [CSS2-VISUAL]. The table indicates which extended interfaces are mandatory and which are not.
The expectation is that the CSSValue returned from the getPropertyCSSValue method on the CSSStyleDeclaration interface can be cast down, using binding-specific casting methods, to the specific derived interface.
For properties that are represented by a custom interface (the valueType of the CSSValue is CSS_CUSTOM), the name of the derived interface is specified in the table. For properties that consist of lists of values (the valueType of the CSSValue is CSS_VALUE_LIST), the derived interface is CSSValueList. For all other properties (the valueType of the CSSValue is CSS_PRIMITIVE_VALUE), the derived interface is CSSPrimitiveValue.
The SVG DOM supports the following interfaces and event types from [DOM2-EVENTS]:
Each SVG element which has at least one event attribute assigned to it in the SVG DTD supports the DOM2 event registration interfaces [DOM2-EVREG] and be registered as an event listener for the corresponding DOM2 event using the event registration interfaces. Thus, for example, if the SVG DTD indicates that a given element supports the "onclick" event attribute, then an event listener for the "click" event can be registered with the given element as the event target.
SVG's animation elements also support the DOM2 event registration interfaces [DOM2-EVREG]. Event listeners for any of the animation events can be registered on any of the animation elements.
Event listeners which are established by DOM2 Event registration interfaces [DOM2-EVREG] receive events before any event listeners that correspond to event attributes (see Event attributes) or animations.