Comment 5 for bug 1290573

Diving deeper into the obstructed operations. Perform these steps:

1. Open Inkscape
2. Draw a new path with the Bezier tool
3. Convert stroke to path
4. Undo
5. Open the XML Editor

Display looks as expected, right? There's a surprise waiting for you. Without closing the XML Editor, select the Node tool and move one of the points on the path. In the XML Editor: bam, no path ID. No console output.
In one of my tests the XML editor glitched out and created five copies of each true XML node in the display window. The console output was several of these:

(inkscape:28124): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_store_move: assertion `VALID_ITER (iter, tree_store)' failed