Comment 0 for bug 170020

I put this in the Category: Other because strangely
there is no Import category but both Saving and Export
are listed.

it would be very useful to be able to point Inkscape at
any XML document and have it import whatever SVG is
contained therein.

I'm particularly interested in this because I would
like to be able to directly reuse shapes I (and others)
have created for Dia. The dia .shape file format is
largely SVG with some extra information for connection
points and other things.

(I posted a similar suggestion to Sodipodi a while back
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=628811&gro
up_id=4054&atid=354054

)