From scratch, I'd never heard of scour.py (although I will go have a look at it now Image may be NSFW.
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). I only just discovered while reading answers on stackoverflow that Inkscape is apparantly written in python using lxm. I did see a reference to an Inkscape plug in to collapse redundant groups that I need to look at. I'm also finding out why people are resistant to changing to python 3 Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. I have (or had) pretty printing running and then move it in to the main script where it promptly broke because I hadn't remembered to set pythin3 in cygwin so it was using python 2 . I'm so far having little luck in getting the pretty printed xml to write to a file (because its in a funny format because of a lxml limitation that just works on 2.7 but tosses type errors on 3. I was thinking that once I get the standalone scripts running looking at an Inkscape plugin would be a good bet, a one step process would be better (but it would likely preclude syntax checking of fpz files so maybe not Image may be NSFW.
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Peter
