Re: Displaying SVG with embedded links

> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2026 19:06:21 +0200
> Cc: Michael Heerdegen <[email protected]>,
> 	[email protected]
> From:  <[email protected]>
> 
> > > But I would have to do that all manually, including parsing the svg
> > > file's source - right?
> > 
> > Parsing for what purpose?
> 
> I think Michael wants a hot spot for each link /whithin/ the SVG. For
> this, he needs to know where those links in the SVG are (NB: in SVG,
> you can embed <a href="...">...</a> elements, they are allowed in the
> definition, and browsers honour them)

If you mean parsing for the purpose of determining the coordinates of
the links which should be mouse-sensitive, then yes, this will need
SVG parsed.  Hopefully, the svg.el package already in Emacs could help
(not that I ever used it for this purpose).

> > What I had in mind is just adding :map to the image descriptor which
> > names the SVG file name (or SVG data, if that's how you pass the image
> > to Emacs).
> 
> I think Michael wants a more fine-grained approach; if I understand
> you correctly, the whole SVG image would be just one button, right?

No, there could be several, see the description of :map in the ELisp
manual.