On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:02:03 +0000, Andrew Conkling <andrewski@...633...> wrote:

------- Additional Comment #5 From Dom Lachowicz 2005-01-02 16:32 ------- it is best, in my opinion, if the SVGs are emitted in a "streamable" format, which means that gradient 578 should appear before gradient 581 in the file.

1. Sorting ids is not sufficient, generally. Gradients can have arbitrary ids. Their links can be arbitrary trees, not only linear chains.

2. Since sorting ids is sufficient in most cases but not in all, I don't want to code this partial solution into the application. This seems to be a good use case for output extensions. Thus, sorting elements is trivial in XSLT; you can write an XSLT stylesheet that rsvg-ifies our SVG and submit it, and someone will then hook it up as an extension.

3. Though we have fixed most of the same problem in Inkscape, some pieces still remain unfixed (bug 989084). I'd rather that we spend effort on fixing these.