From reading the markup I have noticed that it is extremely verbose (more accurately I was reminded having previously noticed this in Sodipodi) and I cannot think of any reason why this markup needs to be written. For example a lot of style information about fonts in groups that done contain any text or setting the fill-style:none but and then still setting the unneccessary fill-rule, so i filed an enhancement request asking for less verbose markup and with some suggestions. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=909368&grou...
Text style is not added to non-text objects now. Since icons.svg was created long ago, it doesn't show that. More granular style management will be possible when we have AST (a new internal representation for XML and CSS) that's being worked on.
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