[Inkscape-devel] Handling missing point attribute in input SVG

Hello,

Since it is my first post here, I would like to introduce myself. I'm CS student interested in FLOSS software and C++ development. I would like to contribute to Inkscape to raise my programming skills and do something good this year.

I've begun by solving bug #1202753. For polygon elements in input file, that have empty or no "points" attribute SPShape::curve field is NULL. According to comment in sp-polygon.cpp:125 this should not be the case.

When points="", sp_polygon_set does not initialize SPShape::curve. Comment in sp-polygon.cpp:169 refers to W3C note: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/implnote.html#ErrorProcessing. How should this situation be handled in document tree?

Regards, Tomasz Boczkowski