Edit existing svg document

[swas]

Using Raphaël, can I edit, apply animations, etc. an existing svg
document?

Thanks.

[drozzy]

Would be interested in this as well.
In my case I want to detect some events on svg-image elements
generated by some external program, like matplotlib.

[Tamale]

I need something similar.. I have a php script which already generates
the an SVG, but I'd like to use raphael to work with the SVG once it's
on the page.. is there any kind of a 'load' function in raphael for
this?

[kirkaustin]

Yes, I need the same thing.

It would be a great addition to the library!

[a.shaferov]

Same question. Does someone know answer?
Does someone know another animation engine, that can do so?

[Dmitry Baranovskiy]

Use old plain JavaScript for this or write a plugin for Raphaël that
will parse existing SVG. At the moment there are no plans on
implementing this feature.

[jmerari]

I'm doing a little experiment using svgnet library (http://
www.jbrowse.com/svgnet/) to parse Inkscape output into javascript
statement to drive Raphael. It works for simple-untransformed object.
But if Inkscape has transformed it using matrix transformation, I
can't render it correctly in Raphael. Once you have multiple action
(translate - rotate - translate - scale ...) you can't recover the
order of action and re-play it with Raphael API.

So I make an exact string copy of Inkscape matrix to force transform
attribute value, e.g:

var diagram = Raphael(...)
var rect = diagram.rect(...)
rect.node.setAttribute({transform:"matrix (.., ... ,...,...)"});

It works in FF, Opera, Chrome, ... and of course not in IE.
I've try using DXImageTransform.Matrix (....) in IE, it works for the
rotation and scaling, but not for the translation.
I'm running out ideas, how to render it correctly in IE.

Any suggestion?

[keanzu]

Anyone made any further progress on this? I also want to load SVG
into IE8.