On Jul 10, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Glimmer Labs wrote:

This is exactly what I wanted to hear. Now does this behavior mandate

that every element have an id attribute. I think Inkscape does this by

default now. But it is not required by SVG and Jon Cruz has mentioned

many times in the past that he would like to change our behavior. Are we

talking id attributes or is there a unique id per element inside of

Inkscape?


I wasn't aware that that wasn't part of the SVG spec.  All of my

knowledge about this sort of thing comes from opening up the XML

editor and changing values to see what they do.  If the id attributes

get dropped I'll have to find another way to represent objects,

hopefully one that isn't too messy.



Yes, one main thing is that we need to kill id attributes except when absolutely required. Among other things, it really clutters the XML, and complicates things for technical users.

Another possible approach is XPath.