No clipping with nested svg elements

[Frederik Elwert]

According to the SVG 1.1 spec, user agents must establish a clipping path for svg elements that are not the root element: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/masking.html#InitialClippingPath

Take this simple example:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1"
     width="100" height="100">
    <circle cx="25" cy="25" r="25"/>
    <svg x="50" y="50" width="25" height="25">
        <circle cx="25" cy="25" r="25"/>
    </svg>
</svg>

It should show one full circle, and one circle clipped to its upper-left quarter. This is handled correctly by Batik, librsvg and Opera. But Inkscape shows both circles unclipped.

[Ryan Lerch (ryanlerch)]

Do we support this feature of SVG yet? or is it a wishlist item that goes towards the overall goal of being SVG compliant?

[Frederik Elwert (frederik-elwert)]

Inkscape can't produce this kind of files with nested svg files. But it generally can display them - except for the clipping. So this is a display bug concerning compatibility with the spec and with other viewers. I don't know if you would call it a wishlist feature, I would call it a bug.

[ScislaC (scislac)]

Given that we use Batik as the reference renderer, this appears to be correct.

[Beluga (buovjaga)]

Still confirmed.

Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Inkscape 0.92pre1 15054 (GTK3)

[Jonathan Hofinger (jhofinger)]

Hi - thanks for reporting this bug, I've manually migrated it to Inkscape's new bug tracker on GitLab, and closed it here.

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

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/2196
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/jhofinger