It seems to me that allowing links to other SVG files in this way would be really useful in many cases, but there seems to be little interest from users or developers, and I wonder why. Is there some obvious alternate mechanism I'm overlooking?
One use case which would make Inkscape particularly useful to the open-source map community would be linking to generated SVG map content so post GIS enhancements could be made and the underlying map(s) automagically updated. But I think there must be countless cases where this functionality would be helpful. Is it just a case of so many things to do and so little time?
Cheers -Terry
That would be extremely useful - and there is a huge demand from users, they just don't call it this (i.e. linked SVGs). A quick search on lp using the terms library and symbol gives me:
PALETTE: Object Library, aka shapes, stencils, etc https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170059 Scrapbook-like symbol library https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170567 a library of UI Widgets as SVG obejcts https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171641
All of these would be easy/easier if SVG linking existed, as (ignoring the UI) each object/symbol could just be implemented as an SVG xref to the template file.
-Rob A>