Inkscapers,
Should inkscape refuse to load a file that includes an <image element which references the svg file itself?
I don't see anything in the svg spec about how you're supposed to exit their (accidentally enabled?) recursion and inkscape 0.43 runs to 1.3GB of ram very quickly (I'm not brave enough today to see if it goes all the way to the OS barrier, but I don't see any signs that it wouldn't.)
I would attach the file, but I don't want to get accused of sending virii :-) If you have the ram and stomach for it, just slap this into the middle of a skeleton file named image_recursive.svg and enjoy.
<image y="103.00504" x="48.357143" id="image1355" height="355.85715" width="345.17828" xlink:href="image_recursive.svg" />
--Eric
