Comment 4 for bug 591595

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote : Re: Text Put on Path Does Not Stay There Upon Save and Reopen

> I manually changed the IDs; sorry. I had no idea
> that would break the references.

Use the "Label" field in the object properties dialog to add a custom tag to the object. IDs have to be unique, therefore it is better not not manually edit them and keep them as assigned by Inkscape.

> If this is the case I would request an enhancement to see
> the effect of changing the IDs live

Could you file a separate feature request for this?

> where is the reference data located in the XML?

It is stored with the linked object i.e. the text object:
 <textPath xlink:href="#path3159" …>

see also: <http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/text.html#TextOnAPath>