%% Copyright (c) 2011 Juan Pablo Carbajal <carbajal@ifi.uzh.ch>
%% 
%%    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
%%    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
%%    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
%%    any later version.
%%
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%%    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
%%    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
%%    GNU General Public License for more details.
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function data = loadsvgdata (obj, svg, varargin)

  here   = which ("@svg/loadsvgdata");
  here   = fileparts (here);
  script = fullfile (here, 'parseSVGData.py');

  %% Call python script
  if exist (svg,'file')
  % read from file  
    [st str]=system (sprintf ('python %s %s', script, svg));
    
  else
  % inline SVG  
    [st str]=system (sprintf ('python %s < %s', script, svg));
  end
  
  %% Parse ouput
  strdata = strsplit (str(1:end-1), '$', true);
  eval (strdata);

endfunction
