XPointers in SVG
- by Nycto
I've been trying to get XPointer URIs working in an SVG file, but haven't had any luck so far. After trying something more complicated and failing, I simplified it down to just referencing an ID. However, this still fails.
The spec seems pretty clear about this implementation:
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/struct.html#URIReference
I found an example online of what should be a working XPointer reference within an svg document. Here is the Original. Here is the version I copied out:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg width="500" height="200" version="1.1"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<defs>
<rect id="simpleRect" width="100px" height="75px"/>
</defs>
<use xlink:href="#simpleRect"
x="50" y="50" style="fill:red"/>
<use xlink:href="#xpointer(id('simpleRect'))"
x="250" y="50" style="fill:yellow"/>
</svg>
This should display two rectangles... one red and one yellow. I tried rendering with Firefox 3.6 and Inkscape 0.47. No success. Only the Red rectangle shows.
What am I missing?
Thanks for any help you can offer
