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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+## Copyright (c) 2012 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.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## 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.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+import inkex
+import sys
+#import getopt
+
+def parseSVGData (filen=None):
+
+ svg = inkex.Effect ()
+ svg.parse (filen)
+
+ root = svg.document.xpath ('//svg:svg', namespaces=inkex.NSS)
+ print 'data = struct("height",{0},"width",{1},"id","{2}");' \
+ .format(root[0].attrib['height'],root[0].attrib['width'],
+ root[0].attrib['id'])
+# ----------------------------
+
+if __name__=="__main__":
+ svg = sys.argv[1]
+ parseSVGData(svg)