riff on name

SVG version

If you want to analyse some SVG that is not contemporary to the HTML being analysed, you may find the --svg.version switch useful. It takes one argument, the version. The values recognised are:

  • 1.0
  • 1.1
  • 1.2 (really 1.2/tiny)
  • 1.2/tiny
  • 1.2/full (May 2004 draft, incomplete, any conflict with 1.2/tiny always resolves in favour of 1.2/tiny)
  • 2.0
  • 2.1 (April 2021 draft).

If this switch is not used, and some SVG code does not identify its version, the version is derived from the version of the host X/HTML code.

Dylan Harris
December 2024