I have a SVG file (an exported Gliffy diagram) that I want to open and edit in Inkscape. When viewing the code of the file using the developer options of Chrome, it looks like:
<svg xmlns="...>
<g transform="...>
<image xlink:href="data:image/svg xml,
...></image>
</g>
... (about 20 more <g>...</g> tags)
</svg>
When decoding the part starting with ..., it translates to something like
data:image/svg xml,
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="50000" width="50000">
<style>
.gliffy-rte-text {
...
The issue is, that in Inkscape those parts will be replaced by a placeholder telling me "Linked image not found" and as speculated 
You should disable all other optimizing parameter, since they might strip to many other attributes.
Expected before result
<svg viewBox="0 0 256 256" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<style>
circle{
fill:none;
stroke: orange;
stroke-width:10;
}
</style>
<circle cx="128" cy="128" r="100"/>
</svg>
After
<svg viewBox="0 0 256 256" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<circle cx="128" cy="128" r="100" fill="none" stroke="orange" stroke-width="10"/>
</svg>
CodePudding user response:
Open the wrapper file in a browser. Right-click on the area containing the embedded SVG, and choose "Save (image) as...". If the wrapper contains multiple <image> tags, you will have to save them to separate files, but at least they will be in a form Inkscape can handle.
If you want to get them all together in one SVG file again, you will have to re-import them via the Inkscape import function. Take care to select 'Include as editable object', or you will end up right where you started:
The speculations above about CSS are unsubstantiated, btw. Inkscape will convert the content of a <style> element into inline style attributes, but otherwise handle them correctly. What happened is stated quite clearly in the above screenshot: data URLs embeded via an <image> tag will not be editable in Inkscape.

