BaseElement

class svgwrite.base.BaseElement(**extra)

The BaseElement is the root for all SVG elements. The SVG attributes are stored in attribs, and the SVG subelements are stored in elements.

BaseElement.__init__(**extra)
Parameters:extra –

extra SVG attributes (keyword arguments)

  • add trailing ‘_’ to reserved keywords: 'class_', 'from_'
  • replace inner ‘-’ by ‘_’: 'stroke_width'

SVG attribute names will be checked, if debug is True.

workaround for removed attribs parameter in Version 0.2.2:

# replace
element = BaseElement(attribs=adict)

#by
element = BaseElement()
element.update(adict)

Attributes

BaseElement.attribs

dict of SVG attributes

BaseElement.elements

list of SVG subelements

Methods

BaseElement.add(element)

Add an SVG element as subelement.

Parameters:element – append this SVG element
Returns:the added element
BaseElement.tostring()

Get the XML representation as unicode string.

Returns:unicode XML string of this object and all its subelements
BaseElement.get_xml()

Get the XML representation as ElementTree object.

Returns:XML ElementTree of this object and all its subelements
BaseElement.get_id()

Get the object id string, if the object does not have an id, a new id will be created.

Returns:string
BaseElement.get_iri()

Get the IRI reference string of the object. (i.e., '#id').

Returns:string
BaseElement.get_funciri()

Get the FuncIRI reference string of the object. (i.e. 'url(#id)').

Returns:string
BaseElement.update(attribs)

Update SVG Attributes from dict attribs.

Rules for keys:

  1. trailing ‘_’ will be removed ('class_' -> 'class')
  2. inner ‘_’ will be replaced by ‘-’ ('stroke_width' -> 'stroke-width')
BaseElement.__getitem__(key)

Get SVG attribute by key.

Parameters:key (string) – SVG attribute name
Returns:SVG attribute value
BaseElement.__setitem__(key, value)

Set SVG attribute by key to value.

Parameters:
  • key (string) – SVG attribute name
  • value (object) – SVG attribute value
BaseElement.set_desc(title=None, desc=None)

Insert a title and/or a desc element as first subelement.

BaseElement.set_metadata(xmldata)
Parameters:xmldata – an xml.etree.ElementTree - Element() object.

set/get SVG attributes:

element['attribute'] = value
value = element['attribute']

attribs = {
  'class' = 'css-class',
  'stroke' = 'black',
}
element.update(attribs)