[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 15443] SVGImage does not support sub-resource loading

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15443





--- Comment #17 from Cosmin Truta <ctruta at chromium.org>  2011-02-09 08:03:30 PST ---
It is, in fact, much easier to use the <use> element instead of <image>, but with a caveat: the SVG specification does not allow <use> to reference an entire file. (This is unfortunate, the limitation is un-natural, and yet it would be "the right thing" to use when referencing external SVG files, just like <iframe> would do in HTML.)

This limitation of the <use> element can be worked around by adding an id at the top-level <svg> tag, as follows:

** file main.svg
<svg ...>
...
<use x="0" y="0" xlink:href="embedded.svg#main">
...
</svg>

** file embedded.svg
<svg id="main" ...>
...
</svg>

Unfortunately, external references in <use> do not work in WebKit at this moment. Mozilla and Opera handles them well, though.

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