SVG xml：base属性在IE9中不起作用

Question

I'm trying to create an SVG document that includes image tags referencing png files. This works if I include the absolute path of the png in every image tag but if I try putting an xml:base attribute in it doesn't seem to work in IE9. However it does seem to work Firefox and Chrome. Is there a bug in IE or is there something wrong with my syntax?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:base="file:///C:/SVG/Devices/valves/">
  <image width="40" height="56" x="10" y="10" xlink:href="motorised_valve[purple].gif"/>
</svg>

For complicated reasons I don't want to go into here, I can't put the SVG document into the same folder as the images.

Thanks for any help Mog

Answer 1

Would it be acceptable in your case to embed your PNG images in your document using the data:// protocol? That would solve your problem, at the expense of potentially making the XML rather large.