Re: Strange behavior

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 19 May 2003, Philip Serracino Inglott wrote:
> Hi,
> When i try and load this svg file the path is lost, not rendered AND
> lost on exporting a shape:
> 
> --snip--
> <svg width="210mm" height="297mm"  >
>   <rect
> style="font-size:12;fill:#808080;fill-rule:evenodd;stroke-width:1pt;"
>      id="rect104" width="430.359" height="346.304" x="50.4327" 
> y="131.125" />
>   <path style="fill:#ca8080;stroke-width:1;"
>      d="M 289.147 329.494 L 289.147 702.696 L 712.782 702.696 L 712.782
> 329.494 L 289.147 329.494 Z "
>      />
> </svg>
> --snip--
> 
> but when I manauly create this shape file and load it into the a sheet
> is is displayed fine:
> 
> --snip--
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <shape xmlns="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns";
> xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";>
>   <name>dia - text</name>
>   <icon>text.png</icon>
>   <connections> <point x="50.4327" y="131.125"/> </connections>
>   <aspectratio type="fixed"/>
>   <svg:svg>
>     <svg:rect style="fill: #818181" x="50.4327" y="131.125"
> width="430.359" height="346.304"/>
>     <svg:rect style="fill: none; stroke-width: 1; stroke: #ffffff"
> x="50.4327" y="131.125" width="430.359" height="346.304"/>
>     <svg:path
>      style="fill: #ca8080; stroke-width: 1;"
>      d="M 289.147 329.494 L 289.147 702.696 L 712.782 702.696 L 712.782
> 329.494 L 289.147 329.494 Z " />
>   </svg:svg>
> </shape>
> --snip--
> 
> Sorry for posting xml in the list, but since I do not know C I could not
> hope to pinpoint the bug further.

There's a few things that could make the difference (or several of them),
I'm not familiar enough with the SVG reader to tell:  The svg: prefix and the
extra spaces (Sodipodi for instance cares about such whitespace).  But the
rect comes up, right?  That makes it rather odd...

I'm sorry I can't help much right now, I'm going to get married in three
days and have only limited computer access.

-Lars

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