circle shape is considered as a <path/> tag

Bug #167789 reported by Bug Importer
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Bug Description

Circle shape is not declared as a SVG <circle/> tag in
the SVG tree, but as a <path/> tag (and is saved
accordingly to this mistake). It does not meet the SVG
recommandation and no longer produce a <circle/> tag to
represent a circle shape.

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Buliabyak-users (buliabyak-users) wrote :

It certainly is not a "mistake" and is completely compliant
to the SVG specification. SVG does not require that all
circular shapes must be <circle>s. The <circle> element is
just an optional semantic shortcut, but <path> is perfectly
valid for this purpose as well.

On the other hand, using <circle> imposes two important
limitations: you cannot use markers with it and you can't
put text on path with it. I'd rather consider these issues
to be "bugs" in SVG, for which we provide a workaround by
using <path>.

Anyway, we already have an RFE for optional creation of
<circle> and other shape elements, so I'm closing this as
duplicate.

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