Please add an example of how to create a text node or setting the equivalent of innerHTML / textContent.

I try to create text boxes and would like to specify svg attributes with hypens in them (like "font-size" or "stroke-width")
Unfortunately e.g. font-size is no valid python name for a function parameter.

How would I do this in Python without construtcing to unescaped text?

Should an SVG file have a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" declaration in the root?

(Without it, Gapplin and PyCharm warn me the file is invalid and won't display it. Illustrator and InkScape render it happily, though.)

If so, should Soda somehow support the inclusion of it? Something like:

from:

        root = Root(
            viewBox="-400 -400 800 800",
            xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
        )

to:

        root = Root(
            viewBox="-400 -400 800 800",
            namespace = True
        )

(My apologies if this doesn't make sense. And thanks for the very practical library!)

because it's a Python keyword...

Path.build() uses a comma , as default separator between commands, which apparently is invalid - at least Firefox does not render the resulting path, and https://svg-path-visualizer.netlify.app/ prints "Unexpected character "A" at index 9. Command cannot follow comma".

M 10 30, A 20 20 0 0 1 50 30, A 20 20 0 0 1 50 30, Q 90 60 50 90, Q 10 60 10 30, Z

from

https://github.com/evtn/soda/blob/lord/README.md?plain=1#L227

From #3

I've removed the root attributes to keep it short.

Speaking of, I'm currently using

...
svg = root.render(pretty=True)
with open("svg.svg", "wt", encoding='utf-8') as f:
    f.write('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>')
    f.write(svg)

to build a valid file. Do you think including an option to prepend the XML declaration or supply a custom preamble string makes sense?

It seems that some XMLDeclaration tag could be convenient, like this:

from soda import Root, Fragment, XMLDeclaration

Fragment(
    XMLDeclaration(),
    Root(...)
).render()

Although right now this won't work because of two things:

• Fragment raises an exception if its .render() method is called (I genuinely don't know why it should be that way)
• XML declaration uses non-standard tag brackets, and a custom component would need to reimplement .build() to circumvent this

Something seems to be going wrong in https://github.com/evtn/soda/blob/lord/soda/paths.py#L76

from soda import Tag, Root, Path

commands = (
    Path.M(1, 2),
    Path.q(3, 4, 5, 6),
    Path.t( 7, 8),
    Path.Z()
)
p = Tag.path()(d=Path.build(*commands, sep=" "))

root = Root()(p)
print( root.render(pretty=True) )

Output

<svg
>
  <path
    d="M 1 2 q 3 4 5 6 t 0 0 Z"
  />
</svg>

Same with T:

<svg><path d="M 1 2 q 3 4 5 6 T 0 0 Z"/></svg>

Attempting the example in https://github.com/evtn/soda#text

from soda import Tag, Root, Literal
svg = Root()(
    Tag.g(Literal('<path d="M0 0 L10 0 Z"/>', escape=False))
).render()