[Inkscape-devel] Format of path names in SVG files?

Dear all,

I recently noticed that embedded bitmaps in SVG files exported from (Windows) Corel X3 (=v.13) get the windows-typical backslashes rather than forward slashes in their file references in the generated SVG files. Therefore these files do not show the bitmaps when opened on Inkscape in Linux. It can be fixed by manually replacing the forward slashes by backslashes (which is tedious, however). Is that defined in the SVG standard? Is Corel goofing, or is inkscape not correctly considering files generated on a different platform? Shouldn't there be a platform-independent standard for the path names?

PS: I recently got note from microUgly that the Windows version of Inkscape also produces backslashes.