Re: Extending svg.el

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Ulf Jasper <address@hidden> writes:

> However, in the end I only used very few
> functions from 'svg.el', but wrote a handful of new functions and even
> "re-invented" some functions (e.g. 'svg-line').  The reason is that many
> of the functions in 'svg.el' produce side-effects (via 'svg-append' and
> 'svg-possibly-update-image'). Besides that adding attributes to svg
> primitives appears to have an effect on the containing xml tree (via
> 'svg-arguments').

Yes, svg.el is not an immutable functional-type library, but an
object-oriented one that works on an XML tree.

If you want a function variant of the same, you can just copy the DOM
before you pass it in.  Perhaps add a `dom-copy' function to dom.el?

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