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What and why

Many tools note things on SVG objects in attributes of their own XML namespace: a plotter's pen, a cutter's passes, a game engine's collision flag. Import dropped them, so a file that went through VectorCraft lost what other software had set on its objects. #522 asked for unknown and data-* attributes to survive a round trip; #580 kept the data-* ones, and this keeps the ones in other applications' namespaces.

  • Import keeps every attribute in a namespace that isn't SVG's, XLink's, XML's, Inkscape's, Sodipodi's or VectorCraft's own, in order, with its namespace URI and the prefix the file gave it. They go on the object or layer the element becomes, on the same elements whose data-* attributes are kept. The file is untrusted: at most 64 per object and 64 KiB per value, and what is left out is warned about. Files that declare no other namespace skip the scan.
  • They are the object's own, as its data-* attributes are: ObjectAttributes::foreign, beside data and the event handlers. A pasted copy and a duplicate keep them, and deleting the object takes them with it. The native file keeps them in the object's attrs, as foreign, a key written only when an object has some, so other documents save as before. VectorCraft versions from before this open such files and leave the key out when they save.
  • Export writes them back on the same elements and declares each namespace once, on the root, under the file's prefix. A prefix the export uses itself, or that another namespace already has, becomes prefix2, prefix3…; one XML keeps for itself (xml…) becomes ns. A name or value XML can't hold is left out with a warning.

Nothing in VectorCraft reads them, and nothing in the UI lists them.

On #710 I asked whether these should rather go with the document's foreign data, as #3720 does for plug-in settings, so that the native file wouldn't change. They belong to objects, though: kept with the document, a copy, a duplicate or a paste would lose them, and a deleted object would leave its entry behind. So they stay on the object, where the data-* attributes already are.

One commit on main.

How it was tested

Tests. crates/svg/tests/foreign_attributes.rs: a layer's and a shape's attributes survive import, export and import again, Inkscape's and Sodipodi's own aside and with no warnings, and the native form round-trips; prefixes are made unique, and bad names and values are left out with a warning; the caps hold and are warned about once. crates/engine/src/tests_attributes.rs: a pasted copy and a duplicate keep them, a deleted object leaves none behind, and the native file and SVG export keep them.

No UI changes, so no pictures. No new UI strings or error messages, so no catalog rows.

Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md (SVG row), docs/target-app-parity.md (evidence; scores and hours unchanged) and docs/mcp.md (what SVG import and export keep).

Checklist

  • cargo xtask ci passes (fmt, clippy, tests, assets, brands, layers, wasm).
  • No panics in shipped code: no unwrap(), expect(), panic!, unreachable!, todo! or
    unimplemented! outside tests, and no unchecked indexing on data from files, parameters or
    messages. Errors are returned as Result and shown to the user
    (why and how).
  • Clean-room: nothing copied from Adobe products or GPL/AGPL code (AGENTS.md).
  • Every new asset has a row in ASSETS.md (no new assets).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • SVG imports now preserve attributes from other applications’ XML namespaces on objects and layers, and exports write them back. These attributes also survive copying, duplication, deletion, and saving to native files.
    • Invalid or excess attributes may be omitted with a warning; imports retain up to 64 attributes per element, with values up to 64 KiB.
  • Documentation
    • Updated SVG format notes to describe namespace attribute preservation and its limits.

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SVG import now preserves eligible foreign-namespace attributes on objects and layers. The attributes are stored in native object data and written during SVG export, with namespace declarations on the root element. Import and export apply limits and validation, and tests cover attribute retention and round trips.

Changes: Foreign SVG attributes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define the foreign-attribute model
crates/doc/src/node.rs, crates/doc/src/lib.rs, crates/engine/src/tests_attributes.rs, crates/svg/src/lib.rs
ObjectAttributes now stores a serializable list of foreign attributes, and ForeignAttribute is publicly re-exported. Engine tests cover attribute retention through copy, duplication, deletion, native save and load, and SVG serialization.
Collect and restore attributes
crates/svg/src/import.rs, crates/svg/src/lib.rs, crates/svg/tests/foreign_attributes.rs
SVG import collects eligible attributes outside VectorCraft-owned namespaces and applies them to imported nodes and layers. It limits each element to 64 attributes and each value to 64 KiB, with a warning for omitted attributes. Tests cover limits and round trips.
Write and verify attributes
crates/svg/src/export.rs, crates/svg/tests/foreign_attributes.rs, docs/file-format-parity.md, docs/mcp.md
SVG export validates foreign attributes, assigns namespace prefixes, and declares namespaces on the root. Tests cover prefix conflicts, invalid attributes, and import/export round trips. Documentation records the preservation behavior and limits.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SVG as SVG input
  participant Importer
  participant ObjectAttributes as Imported object
  participant Writer as SVG writer
  SVG->>Importer: Parse foreign attributes
  Importer->>ObjectAttributes: Store attributes on imported nodes
  ObjectAttributes->>Writer: Provide attributes for export
  Writer->>SVG: Write attributes and namespace declarations
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Suggested reviewers: bflatastic

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a114a

Foreign attributes are lost on text objects and on some nested groups, and nested SVG images can pick up the wrong attributes. A crafted native file can also produce an SVG that namespace-aware parsers reject. These are localized fixes that should be made before merging, because the PR promises faithful round trips.

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a114a

Preserving external metadata introduces a memory-amplification path that the attribute count and value limits do not cover. Crafted native metadata can also make an exported SVG unreadable, and some import paths can attach metadata to the wrong object. The demonstrated risks concern document handling; no new privilege escalation has been established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The new collector copies the complete namespace URI into every retained attribute. A single large namespace declaration reused across many shallow elements therefore produces retained memory proportional to namespace length multiplied by attribute occurrences, despite each element staying within the 64-attribute limit and using tiny values. Attachment clones those strings again. This introduces an attacker-controlled allocation path before normalized SVG construction and can exhaust the importing process; the actual failure threshold was not tested.
  • Low · reliability · inferred: A crafted native document can populate foreign attributes with the XML or XMLNS namespace URI. Export accepts those URIs and allocates a non-xml prefix, then declares the binding on the root. Such bindings violate XML namespace constraints, allowing one metadata entry to make the entire exported SVG unacceptable to namespace-aware readers rather than being omitted with a warning. Direct SVG import filters these URIs, but native loading does not apply that filter.
  • Low · architecture · inferred: Foreign metadata does not consistently preserve originating-element ownership. Nested SVG image construction isolates existing data and event maps but leaves the outer foreign map active, so matching inner IDs can inherit outer attributes. Single-child group folding also ignores foreign ownership and can move group metadata onto a child or silently discard it when the child already has foreign attributes. This affects document-local metadata integrity; downstream execution or authorization consequences have not been established.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated attack surfaces are caller-supplied SVG text and native-file bytes. Allocation amplification threatens the importing process, while illegal root namespace bindings threaten the complete exported document. Cross-user, cross-service, credential, or privilege escalation has not been established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A crafted shallow SVG can declare one long foreign namespace and reuse it across many objects with small attribute values. Each occurrence causes a new namespace String allocation during preprocessing, followed by another clone during attachment. The new retained-allocation path is not bounded by the value-length limit or element-depth checks.
  • inferred — A crafted native foreign entry can pass the writer's syntactic checks while naming the XML or XMLNS namespace URI. Prefix rewriting does not make those reserved bindings legal, so the root declaration can invalidate otherwise unrelated exported artwork.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The writer checks prefix and local-name syntax, validates XML characters, escapes values and namespace declarations, suppresses duplicate namespace/name pairs, and avoids exporter-owned prefix collisions. These controls constrain syntax injection and prefix capture, but do not enforce reserved namespace-URI semantics or a retained-byte budget.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Ordinary attachment clones metadata without consuming shared map entries, but nested-image recursion reuses the outer foreign-ID map and group folding does not protect foreign ownership. These are document-local isolation and ownership failures, not demonstrated authorization failures.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bound aggregate retained metadata bytes, including namespace URIs, prefixes, and names, and consider sharing repeated namespace storage. Enforce reserved namespace semantics at export regardless of input producer. Include foreign metadata in nested-image state isolation and group-ownership decisions.
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Review comments at @crates/svg/src/export.rs:
- Around line 681-683: Update the ForeignAttribute validation condition using
xml_ncname and valid_xml_value to reject the reserved XML and XMLNS namespace
URIs, and issue a warning before skipping those entries so they are never added
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Review comments at @crates/svg/src/import.rs:
- Line 390: Update svg_image to save, clear, and restore the foreign attribute
map alongside links, data, and events while importing a nested SVG image, so
keep_foreign cannot attach an outer element’s attributes to the image’s art.
- Line 642: Add `text` to `OBJECT_ELEMENTS` so the foreign-attribute prepass
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- Line 1024: Update the `own` check in `group_node` to include
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Comment thread crates/svg/src/export.rs
Comment on lines +681 to +683
if !xml_ncname(&a.prefix) || !xml_ncname(&a.name) || a.ns.is_empty() || !valid_xml_value(&a.ns) || !valid_xml_value(&a.value) {
self.warn("Attributes of other applications with invalid XML names or characters were left out of SVG");
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject reserved namespace URI bindings before export.

A native ForeignAttribute can set ns to http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace or http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/. These values pass this check. foreign_prefix then assigns another prefix, and the root declares a binding that XML Namespaces forbids. Reject these entries with a warning before adding them to foreign_ns, so an exported SVG remains parseable. (w3.org)

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Update the ForeignAttribute validation condition using xml_ncname and
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Comment thread crates/svg/src/import.rs
/// The event attributes of elements, by id ([`user_events`]).
events: HashMap<String, Vec<(String, String)>>,
/// The attributes of elements in other applications' namespaces, by id ([`foreign`]).
foreign: HashMap<String, Vec<ForeignAttribute>>,

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Isolate foreign attributes while reading a nested SVG image.

svg_image temporarily clears the outer document's links, data, and events maps at Lines 1566–1576, but leaves this map active. If a nested SVG image reuses an ID from an outer element with a foreign attribute, keep_foreign can attach the outer element's attribute to the image's art. Save, clear, and restore foreign with the other maps.

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Review comment at @crates/svg/src/import.rs at line 390:
Update svg_image to save, clear, and restore the foreign attribute map alongside
links, data, and events while importing a nested SVG image, so keep_foreign
cannot attach an outer element’s attributes to the image’s art.

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Comment thread crates/svg/src/import.rs
}
}
if foreign_attrs {
for e in elements().filter(|e| OBJECT_ELEMENTS.contains(&e.tag_name().name())) {

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Include text in OBJECT_ELEMENTS.

The foreign-attribute prepass excludes text, so imported text objects lose their foreign attributes. Edits::id already assigns IDs to elements without one, and text::prepare copies that ID to the placeholder group. The existing keep_foreign path can therefore attach the attributes without a separate text-slot mapping.

🐛 Suggested fix
-const OBJECT_ELEMENTS: &[&str] = &["g", "a", "use", "path", "rect", "circle", "ellipse", "line", "polyline", "polygon", "image"];
+const OBJECT_ELEMENTS: &[&str] = &["g", "a", "use", "path", "rect", "circle", "ellipse", "line", "polyline", "polygon", "image", "text"];
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Add `text` to `OBJECT_ELEMENTS` so the foreign-attribute prepass includes text
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Comment thread crates/svg/src/import.rs
/// Give `n` the attributes of element `id` in other applications' namespaces, unless it has
/// some already (what an inner element made of it keeps).
fn keep_foreign(&self, id: &str, n: &mut Node) {
if let Some(kept) = self.foreign.get(id).filter(|_| n.extras().attrs.as_ref().is_none_or(|a| a.foreign.is_empty())) {

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Keep a group's foreign attributes when folding it into its child.

group_node can fold an id-less, single-child <g> into its child. Its own check at crates/svg/src/import.rs:1233 tests only data and events. For <g plotter:pen="2"> around <path plotter:pen="3">, the fold can run. The child is built first and keeps its own foreign value. keep_foreign then skips the group's value because the folded node already has foreign attributes, and it emits no warning. The group's plotter:pen="2" is lost.

Treat foreign attributes like data and events in own. The group then stays a group and keeps its own attributes:

🐛 Suggested fix
-            // `data-*` or event attributes of its own stays a group, and keeps them.
-            let own = self.data.contains_key(g.id()) || self.events.contains_key(g.id());
+            // `data-*`, event or foreign attributes of its own stays a group, and keeps them.
+            let own = self.data.contains_key(g.id()) || self.events.contains_key(g.id()) || self.foreign.contains_key(g.id());
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Review comment at @crates/svg/src/import.rs at line 1024:
Update the `own` check in `group_node` to include
`self.foreign.contains_key(g.id())` alongside data and events, so a group with
its own foreign attributes is not folded into its child and retains those
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Many tools note things on SVG objects in attributes of their own XML
namespace: a plotter's pen, a cutter's passes, a game engine's
collision flag. Import dropped them, so a file that went through
VectorCraft lost what other software had set on its objects. storytold#522
asked for unknown and data-* attributes to survive a round trip; storytold#580
kept the data-* ones, and this keeps the ones in other applications'
namespaces.

- Import keeps every attribute in a namespace that isn't SVG's,
  XLink's, XML's, Inkscape's, Sodipodi's or VectorCraft's own, on the
  object or layer it belongs to, in order, with its namespace URI and
  the prefix the file gave it (ObjectAttributes::foreign, beside the
  data-* attributes and the event handlers). The file is untrusted: at
  most 64 per object and 64 KiB per value, and what is left out is
  warned about. Files that declare no other namespace skip the scan.
- They are the object's own, as its data-* attributes are: a pasted
  copy and a duplicate keep them, and deleting the object takes them
  with it. The native file keeps them in the object's attributes, a
  key written only when an object has some.
- Export writes them back on the same elements and declares each
  namespace once, on the root, under the file's prefix. A prefix the
  export uses itself, or that another namespace already has, becomes
  prefix2, prefix3...; one XML keeps for itself (xml...) becomes ns. A
  name or value XML can't hold is left out with a warning.

Nothing in VectorCraft reads them, and nothing in the UI lists them.

svg/tests/foreign_attributes.rs: a layer's and a shape's attributes
survive import, export and import again, Inkscape's and Sodipodi's
own aside and with no warnings, and the native form round-trips;
prefixes are made unique, and bad names and values are left out with
a warning; the caps hold and are warned about once.
engine tests_attributes.rs: a pasted copy and a duplicate keep them, a
deleted object leaves none behind, and the native file and SVG export
keep them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HhvnnnD5fTFupK8WWq35un
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Merged, thanks @KaboomFox! Checked live: a rect with plotter:pen / plotter:passes comes back out with the namespace declared on the root.

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