Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program

Appendix B. File Format

It is not the purpose of this section to describe the Inkscape and SVG file formats in detail (for that, look at the W3C SVG [http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/] website). Instead, the purpose is to give an overview that could help the user, for example, edit the SVG files with the XML Editor.

Default Template File

Here is a listing of the default template (default.svg):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>                  
<!-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) -->               
 <svg                                                                   
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"                                    xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd" ...