The Book of Inkscape

A.3 Root

Here’s a typical root svg element of an Inkscape SVG document with a number of namespace declarations and other attributes:

<svg xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
     xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"
     xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
     xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
     xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
     xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
     xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
     xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
     sodipodi:docname="file.svg"
     width="1052.3622"
     height="744.09448"
     id="svg2"
     sodipodi:version="0.32"
     inkscape:version="0.46"
     version="1.0">

SVG uses the SVG namespace (http://www.w3.org/2000/svg) for its own elements and the XLink namespace ...