I'd like to reference external svg files in my document and process them via an extension. I know that Inkscape will not render them, but I am using an external call to the Apache Batik framework which can resolve external dependencies.

The problem is, extensions are called on a temporary copy of the current document (usually in some temp folder), so all relative path references are broken.

Is there any way to make an extension call on the original file, or somehow pass that file reference to the extension as a parameter?

I only found this forum thread where people are guessing that this is not possible:

http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1156

Does anyone of you devs know a workaround?

Many thanks in advance,

Gerrit