Default Template File

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Here is a listing of the default template (default.svg):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>                  
<!-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) -->               
 <svg                                                                   
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"                                   
   xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
   xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
   xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
   xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
   xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"
   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
   width="744.09448819"                                                 
   height="1052.3622047">                                               
  <defs />
  <sodipodi:namedview                                                   
     id="base"
     pagecolor="#ffffff"
     bordercolor="#666666"
     borderopacity="1.0"
     gridtolerance="10000"
     guidetolerance="10"
     objecttolerance="10"
     inkscape:pageopacity="0.0"
     inkscape:pageshadow="2"
     inkscape:zoom="0.35"
     inkscape:cx="375"
     inkscape:cy="520" 
     inkscape:document-units="px"
     inkscape:current-layer="layer1" />
  <metadata>                                                            
    <rdf:RDF>
      <cc:Work
         rdf:about="">
        <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
        <dc:type
           rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
      </cc:Work>
    </rdf:RDF>
  </metadata>
  <g inkscape:label="Layer 1" inkscape:groupmode="layer" id="layer1" /> 
</svg>

	Declaration of the XML version and the character encoding.
	A comment. Comments begin with "<!--" and end with "-->".
	Start of SVG content.
	Declaration of SVG version and the standards the file adheres to.
	The width and height of the document page.
	Internal Inkscape data including the color of the page, the zoom factor, and the document units.
	Data about the drawing in a format that can be recognized by other programs.
	An SVG group. This is where the data for objects is put. In this case, the group is empty (other than declaring a label, the type of group, and an id name).
	End of SVG content.


Appendix B. File Format		SVG Groups with Objects