Re: [Inkscape-devel] Object Sets

On 6/28/07, Jeff Rose <jeff@...1764...> wrote:

Hi Inkscapers, I was just talking with a friend while he is working on some diagrams in inkscape, and he wants to be able to have items in multiple groups.

Long ago I've written a detailed RFE on this:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=971544&grou...

So, all that is needed is an enthusiastic developer to program this (simple!) feature :)

Any ideas why groups are limited in this way within the svg spec?

Because SVG is XML, and XML is fundamentally non-overlapping. XML would have never reached the level of ubiquity it now enjoys if it wasn't simple and straightforward like that.