> I created a random svg file with Inkscape, a cross-platform svg drawing app. I created an <artwork> > element with src="pretty.svg"; it displayed inline in the cross-platform xxe XML editor using my xml2rfc > plugin (but no inline editing of the graphic) and converted to PDF reasonably well: I returned to the original subject line, as I wish to return to the idea behind the original thread. Figures are not just "nice to have" additions to text. There are good reasons to include diagrams that would be impossible to use today. For example, the ITU has come up with a diagrammatic technique for describing transport networks (see e.g. G.805 and G.809). Its use is now required in all new work there, and the technique is not just descriptive, it is genuinely useful for catching bugs and as the final word when English language descriptions differ. Such a technique could not be adopted at the IETF under the present ID system, as there would be no normative method of distributing the diagrams. Y(J)S _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf