Are you returning just the SVG to the browser, or are you embedding the SVG in an HTML page? If the latter, just return the SVG string directly without wrapping in XML() -- the XML helper is only needed to prevent escaping in an HTML view. Note, in this case, you will need to set the Content-Type header to "image/svg+xml".
Anyway, the XML helper itself just returns the original text passed to it (as long as you don't set sanitize=True), so it wouldn't be doing anything to the SVG content. Anthony On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 4:52:57 PM UTC-4, jackson.r...@quantachrome.com wrote: > > IN a controller if I return an svg that has full namspace prefixes > (default for the python xml package 'tostring' method )via the XML helper > it is mangled it beyond recognition. The same svg works in emacs as well as > loaded as a file in the bowser. ns0 ns1 etc namepsace prefixes are verbose > but totally legit xml. I wish the python xml package did not add this stuff > ...but still web2py should be able to handle it. > > below is the start of the svg file in question Just to illustrate the > namespace prefixes I am talking about > > <ns0:svg xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"; xmlns:ns0=" > http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; xmlns:ns1=" > http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"; xmlns:ns2=" > http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"; xmlns:ns4=" > http://creativecommons.org/ns#"; xmlns:ns6="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; > xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"; > height="638.99463" id="svg4250" preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin meet" > version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 907.35736 638.99463" width="907.35736" > ns2:docname="station1_flow.svg" ns1:version="0.47 r22583" > xml:space="preserve"><ns0:metadata id="metadata4256"><rdf:RDF><ns4:Work > rdf:about=""><dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format><dc:type rdf:resource=" > http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage"; /><dc:title > /></ns4:Work></rdf:RDF></ns0:metadata><ns0:defs id="defs4254"><ns0:marker > id="Arrow1Lstart" orient="auto" refX="0.0" refY="0.0" > style="overflow:visible" ns1:stockid="Arrow1Lstart"><ns0:path d="M 0.0,0.0 > L 5.0,-5.0 L -12.5,0.0 L 5.0,5.0 L 0.0,0.0 z " id="path5660" > style="fill-rule:evenodd;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:1.0pt;marker-start:none" > transform="scale(0.8) translate(12.5,0)" /></ns0:marker><ns0:linearGradient > id="linearGradient5560"><ns0:stop id="stop5562" offset="0" > style="stop-color:#84bde7;stop-opacity:1;" /><ns0:stop id="stop5564" > offset="1" style="stop-color:#67a4d0;stop-opacity:0;" > /></ns0:linearGradient><ns0:linearGradient id="linearGradient4110" > ns1:collect="always"><ns0:stop id="stop4112" offset="0" > style="stop-color:#000000;stop-opacity:1;" /><ns0:stop id="stop4114" > offset="1" style="stop-color:#000000;stop-opacity:0;" />................. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
