Re: [Inkscape-user] SVG that doesn't display in Inkscape.

Quoth MenTaLguY on or about 2004-07-02:

<switch> its intended use is to enclose a bunch of children, only one of which is supposed to be rendered (based on conditions specified in their requiredFeatures, requiredExtensions, and systemLanguage attributes); I'm not sure whether displaying everything would be an improvement over displaying nothing for typical documents that use it.

fwiw, I think it worked OK in this instance because inkscape could only understand one of the cases.

-t