mask/clippath in style= has no effect, only in attr

[Knutux-users]

Standalone "mask" attribute works ('mask=url(#name)'),
but moving it to style (as 'style="mask: url(#name)"')
ignores a mask.
Most probably this also applies to clip-path property

[Buliabyak-users (buliabyak-users)]

Yes, this is the result of a very old misdesign: a clippath
is a property of an object, not of SPStyle. It will require
quite a bit of refactoring to fix this.

[Dregoth (dregoth)]

Originator: NO

Is there any chance that this bug will be solved in the near future? I was
about to submit it again when I read this report, and saw that it remains
an open issue.

It seems Batik when rendering Java graphics with its Graphics2D
implementation uses the style attribute to do a lot of things, and eUML2
generates diagrams in exactly this way, so I'm having to patch diagrams by
hand every time. Is there something I could contribute to help in
implementing this?

[Buliabyak-users (buliabyak-users)]

Originator: NO

dregoth: ideally, submit a patch :)

this is in fact a slightly cumbersome issue, due to the way the
clippath/mask are stored and used in inkscape architecture. Maybe if you
raise this issue again on the devel list, someone will find time to look
into it.

[RemiE (remi-emonet)]

I want to vote for this bug as I am also encountering this inconvenience with Batik generated svg files.

Attached to this comment is a kind of workaround: an xslt file that copies clip-path property found in the style attribute to a clip-path attribute.

It can be run with any xslt processor (e.g. with xsltproc: 'xsltproc clean-svg-for-inkscape.xsl yourGeneratedSvg.svg > enrichedSvg.svg') or using directly an xsl transformer in Java.

(the xsl file is half generated so it could probably be cleaner)

[su_v (suv-lp)]

update: see bug #324849 “svg lose clipping when opening in inkscape”

«Thomas Holder wrote on 2009-04-30:
fixed with workaround in rev 21260. So far clipping will not be lost, but clip-path will not be editable either.»

[Jonathan Hofinger (jhofinger)]

Fixed for both masks and clip paths in .92.4 and 1.1-dev (6b4d57f, 2020-04-01), probably by the workaround mentioned in bug #324849.

Please feel free to file new bugs about the issues you're seeing at http://inkscape.org/report.

Closed by: https://gitlab.com/jhofinger