Appendix B. File Format
It is not the purpose of this section to describe the Inkscape and SVG file formats in detail (for that, look at the W3C SVG [http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/] website). Instead, the purpose is to give an overview that could help the user, for example, edit the SVG files with the XML Editor.
Default Template File
Here is a listing of the default template (default.svg):
Declaration of the XML version and the character encoding.
A comment. Comments begin with “<!--” and end with “-->”.
Start of SVG content.
Declaration of
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