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+## Copyright (C) 2011 Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com>
+## 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
+## (at your option) 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/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{obj} =} svg ()
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{obj} =} svg (@var{str})
+## Create object of the svg class.
+##
+## If no input argument is provided the object is empty. @var{str} can be a filename
+## or a string defining an inline SVG.
+##
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function svg = svg(name='')
+
+ svg = struct;
+
+ ## SVG data. All the attributes of the <svg> node.
+ ## The field unparsed contains all the attributes that are not being parsed.
+ svg.Data = struct('height',[],'width',[],'id','null','normalized',false);
+
+ ## SVG metadata. All the attributes of the <metadata> node.
+ ## The field unparsed contains all the attributes that are not being parsed.
+ svg.Metadata = struct('unparsed',' ');
+
+ ## SVG paths. It is a vector of path structs. Maybe path can be a object too?
+ ## Order of Path.Data is important so we store in a cell (could be a matrix padded with zeros).
+ ## All the paths stored in polyval compatible format. Straigth segments are also stored as a polynomial.
+ svg.Path = struct();
+
+ svg = class (svg, 'svg');
+
+ if !isempty (name)
+ if exist(name,"file") == 2
+ name = file_in_path(path(), name);
+ else
+ error("svg:BadArguemnt", "File %s doesn't exist",name);
+ end
+ paths = loadpaths(svg, name);
+ svg.Path = paths;
+ data = loadsvgdata(svg, name);
+ svg.Data = data;
+ svg.Data.normalized = false;
+ elseif !ischar(name)
+ print_usage ;
+ endif
+
+
+endfunction
+
+%!test
+%! dc = svg('drawing5.svg');
+%! dc.getpath();
+%! dc.pathid();
+%! dc.getpath('path3756');
+%!
+%! dc = svg('drawing.svg');
+%! ids = dc.pathid();
+%! dc.getpath({ids{[1 3]}});
+
+%!test
+%! dc = svg('drawing6.svg');
+%! ids = dc.pathid();
+%! P = dc.path2polygon(ids{1});
+
+%!test
+%! dc = svg('drawing6.svg');
+%! dc.plot();
+%! dc.plot('color','r','linewidth',2);