hi, looking at the code, the mapping of the xml node types to GTypes seems a bit inflexible and assumes there's a one to one relationship. i was thinking of using a specialized SPGroup to implement a feature, but when the group operation is invoked from the UI it only adds the svg:g xml node; a listener callback is invoked and an SPGroup is created. i could use my own tag, but this would mess up other svg viewers unnecessarily (the feature i want just has to do with how the group is handled during interaction not with its display). ideally, i'd want to use something like <svg:g inkscape:variant="my special group">...</svg:g> so i'd have to use the element's attributes as a secondary key to cause it to create MySpecialSPGroup with modified behaviour. the alternative would be to use a different tag or add the new behaviour to the normal SPGroup (which seems bad from a design perspective). any thoughts?

regards, rob

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