[Clipart] Anyone try librsvg2 on the clipart

[Jon Phillips]

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 15:02 +0100, Stephen Silver wrote:
> Matthew Gates wrote:
> 
> > Inspired by OCAL mailing list, I managed to track down one file that 
> > causes a segv in gqview.  There may well be more, but here is one from 
> > 0.15 that causes a replicable crash:
> > 
> > blokken_arjen_meijer_01.svg
> > 
> > inkview doesn't seem to be able to display anything useful either, 
> > although it doesn't crash.  It provides some error messages that
> > may be helpful:
> > 
> >   blokken_arjen_meijer_01.svg:13: namespace error : Namespace 
> >   prefix xlink for href on use is not defined 
> 
> As this message suggests, the problem is that the xlink namespace is
> used without being defined in the file.  It's defined in the DTD,
> but non-validating XML parsers won't look at that.
> 
> But I think good SVG viewers should be able to cope with this, since
> they should know that the standard SVG DTDs define the xlink namespace
> as http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink.  If this isn't fixed in Inkscape CVS,
> it should be reported as bug.  (Batik and the Adobe viewer have no
> problem with the file.)
> 
> > I don't know how much mileage there is in trying to fix such broken
> > files though.
> 
> We should try to make the SVG files as portable as possible.  This
> particular problem is trivial to fix, as it's just a matter of adding
> the attribute
> 
>   xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
> 
> to the <svg> element.

Did you file a bug on our bug tracker. We really need to start
sanitizing submissions for compatibility and to strip out unnecessary
junk from the files, and test for malware, etc.

Jon

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