Right!? I have another "fun" story, where I found using SVGs a bittersweet experience. The firm I was interning this summer had a third party project of extract

Right!? I have another "fun" story, where I found using SVGs a bittersweet experience. The firm I was interning this summer had a third party project of extracting waveform data in PDFs generated from ECG machines. Since parsing PDFs are another horrible experience, I used Inkscape to generate SVGs, and then used XPaths to parse the SVG's XML to get the data. All was good except that the XML tree was ~30-40 nodes deep at places. I do wish that XML based formats were more deterministic to generate. Order should matter, however, I have seen several tools generating something that looks like this: <foo transform="translateX(10)"> <bar transform="translateX(-10)"> <...> Inkscape has less than ideal UX on Mac though, which is why I use Sketch.