SVG can be defined as a standalone page, as an embedded object, or in an XHTML document with a namespace declaration.
There are three ways of defining SVG in a Web document:
The most powerful method of the three is displaying SVG through the use of namespaces. However, in this section we will only explain the first two methods.
The following example defines a standalone SVG file. The file must be saved with an .svg extension:
Since SVG is XML-based most of the search engines will not pick up a standalone SVG page. To solve this problem we can add SVG as an embedded element in an XHTML page.
The following example shows how to embed SVG within an XHTML document:
The example above is a straightforward XHTML document.
Notice the use of the <object> and <embed> tags. According to the XHTML standard we should only use the <object> tag, but since Netscape does not support this tag we find it best to use both the <object> and <embed> tags.
By using this method the document will be picked up by search engines. This method also makes it easier to integrate other objects (e.g. sound, music, Flash) on the same web page. I think this method is the preferred one, until SVG is supported by the major browsers.
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