Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape is spectacular -- feature requests?

Quoth Eric Jonas on or about 2004-06-21:

But what I'd really like : ) would be some way of storing the original source for a clone in a file.

This may be a dumb idea, but why not make the PNG inclusion method work for SVGs? I was playing with this recently while trying to composite icons via a script, and I couldn't work out a way to simply say

<g transform="..."> <image source="....svg" /> </g>

I instead had to transcribe the whole file (except the <?xml> header).

Is this allowed in the spec? It seems a simple way to build complex images out of component sub-images.

-trent