Clip can produce invalid svg (clip-path shouldn't contain a group)
Steps to reproduce:
- Open Inkscape
- Create two overlapping objects
- Group the top one (with itself)
- Select both and set Clip
- Now the clip-path (see the defs) has a group in it.
What happened?
- The clip-path (see the defs) has a group in it
- The clipped object is not visible in firefox or resvg (qt-backend, cairo-backend) drawing.svg
What should have happened?
Group is disallowed or the group is copied into the clip-path then converted to a valid form (once there, if the clippath is kept after clipping, it should remain grouped)
https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/masking.html#EstablishingANewClippingPath
A ‘clipPath’ element can contain ‘path’ elements, ‘text’ elements, basic shapes (such as ‘circle’) or a ‘use’ element. If a ‘use’ element is a child of a ‘clipPath’ element, it must directly reference ‘path’, ‘text’ or basic shape elements. Indirect references are an error (see Error processing).
For SVG2, https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/render.html#ClippingAndMasking which references https://www.w3.org/TR/css-masking-1/#elementdef-clippath, which says the same thing (see the description)
This disallows groups in clip-paths
Inkscape Version and Operating System:
- Inkscape 1.1-dev (ce96f98111, 2020-04-08) Linux Mint 19.1