: How do I allow " to render rather than " in inkscape? I am developing a tool that will take Inkscape made SVG files. I want to make it so I enter various tagings like {{="test this"}}

@Harper654

SVG documents have to be valid XML. There are 5 forbidden characters in XML that you have to escape with entities:


" is written "
' is written '
< is written &lt;
> is written &gt;
& is written &amp;


… and note that it is only those 5 — the HTML entities are not there in an XML parser.

If you put any un-escaped versions of the above characters into your SVG document, it stops being an SVG document and becomes a plain text document that looks a little like XML. You can’t expect that document to be rendered as an SVG graphic.

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@Angie364

I solved it by added a special processor to my templates before I run the code in them.

Basicaly anything inside {{ and }} I checked for charactors like the " and replaced them with "
This seems to do this trick. Thanks for the advice! This will let the designers easily do what they want with out having too big an issue.

I used this as a helper if all the charactors that could have an issue. www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/articles/entity-escape-characters.php

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