On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 12:34 -0500, Kent Tenney wrote:

Howdy,

A bit of fiddling leads me to believe that it's ok to add tags to Inkscape's top level <svg> tag. Inkscape seems to assign them an id and then ignore them.

Is this correct?

Yes. Though you should put such tags in their own namespace if you're not already doing so.

Is there danger of other svg applications discarding unknown tags, or Inkscape doing this in the future?

Other SVG applications may or may not, but it should be fine with Inkscape. As a matter of philosophy, we make a basic effort to keep whatever's there whether or not we understand it.

-mental