XML-binary Optimized Packaging (XOP) support

[Bug Importer]

There are times that you need to use embedded raster
images into SVG files. Unfortunately, the way handled
by SVG spec is to incorporate a long string of mine64
encoded src="" attribute[1], which wastes a lot of
space, and every instance the image is referred, the
whole string has to be copied. Linking to external
documents are sometimes not an option, because the link
can break. A solution is to use the XOP packaging[2],
which allow bitmaps and other objects to be used within
SVG without calling external files, and without paying
the size penalty.

[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt
[2] http://w3.org/TR/2005/REC-xop10-20050125/

[Zephyrxero-users (zephyrxero-users)]

Wow...this would be very very handy. I too would very much
appreciate this feature. I'd much rather use an open source
format rather than pdf.

[Horkana-users (horkana-users)]

see also "inkjar" which provides a way to bundle up inkscape
documents and all their resources for the purposes of
presentation

also the size penalty of base 64 encoding is largely
mitigated by GZip compression so using SVGZ will help
improve your results right now.

XOP seems to only be at the recommendation stage, so early
days yet.