Hi,<br>
<br>
is it possible to clone an object/group across files? I tried using
clone, but pasting into another file results in an orphaned node
(apparently the reference is only valid _within_ the file with the
original). Is there some other way to achieve something like this?<br>
<br>
I want to prepare a set of slides with the same background. I can of
course select and copy the background from one slide to the next, but
if I want to change something on it then I need to go over all files
again.<br>
<br>
Is there a way to define an object/group in one inkscape file and then link to this in another inkscape file?<br>
<br>
For plain XML files it would look like below, but I don&#39;t know, if this
would work for SVG files and if I can use the XML editor in inkscape to
achieve an effect like this.<br>
<br>
All comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated!<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Marc<br>
<br>
---<br>
<br>
common.xml:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;ISO-8859-1&quot;?&gt;<br>
&nbsp; &lt;somedata&gt;xyz&lt;/somedata&gt;<br>
<br>
---<br>
<br>
slide1.xml:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;ISO-8859-1&quot;?&gt;<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &lt;!DOCTYPE slide SYSTEM &quot;slide.dtd&quot; [<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!ENTITY common SYSTEM &quot;common.xml&quot;&gt;<br>
&nbsp; ]&gt;<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &lt;slide&gt;...&nbsp; &amp;common; &lt;/slide&gt;<br>
<br>
---<br>

<br>

slide2.xml:<br>

<br>

&nbsp; &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;ISO-8859-1&quot;?&gt;<br>

<br>

&nbsp; &lt;!DOCTYPE slide SYSTEM &quot;slide.dtd&quot; [<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!ENTITY common SYSTEM &quot;common.xml&quot;&gt;<br>

&nbsp; ]&gt;<br>

<br>

&nbsp; &lt;slide&gt;...&nbsp; &amp;common; &lt;/slide&gt;<br>

<br>