Start removing dependencies on SVG baseVal.

src/paper.js

@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ var paper = new function() {
 
 /*#*/ if (options.svg) {
 /*#*/ include('svg/SVGStyles.js');
+/*#*/ include('svg/SVGNamespaces.js');
 /*#*/ include('svg/SVGExport.js');
 /*#*/ include('svg/SVGImport.js');
 /*#*/ } // options.svg

src/svg/SVGExport.js

@@ -15,16 +15,12 @@
  * Paper.js DOM to a SVG DOM.
  */
 new function() {
-	var formatter = Formatter.instance,
-		namespaces = {
-			href: 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink',
-			xlink: 'http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns'
-		};
+	var formatter = Formatter.instance;
 
 	function setAttributes(node, attrs) {
 		for (var key in attrs) {
 			var val = attrs[key],
-				namespace = namespaces[key];
+				namespace = SVGNamespaces[key];
 			if (typeof val === 'number')
 				val = formatter.number(val);
 			if (namespace) {

src/svg/SVGImport.js

@@ -20,22 +20,22 @@ new function() {
 	// index is option, and if passed, causes a lookup in a list.
 
 	function getValue(node, key, allowNull, index) {
-		// node[key].baseVal will even be set if the node did not define the
-		// attribute, so if allowNull is true, we need to also check
-		// node.getAttribute(key) == null
-		var base = (!allowNull || node.getAttribute(key) != null)
-				&& node[key] && node[key].baseVal;
+		var namespace = SVGNamespaces[key];
+		var value = namespace
+				? node.getAttributeNS(namespace, key)
+				: node.getAttribute(key);
 		// Note: String values are unfortunately not stored in base.value, but
 		// in base directly, so we need to check both, also on item lists, using
 		// Base.pick(base.value, base)
-		return base
-				? index !== undefined
-					// Item list? Look up by index:
-					? index < base.numberOfItems
-						? Base.pick((base = base.getItem(index)).value, base)
-						: null
-					: Base.pick(base.value, base)
-				: null;
+		if (index != null && value != null) {
+			var values = value.split(',');
+			value = values[index];
+			if (value == null)
+				value = values[values.length - 1];
+		}
+		if (/^[\d.+-]/.test(value))
+			value = parseFloat(value);
+		return value;
 	}
 
 	function getPoint(node, x, y, allowNull, index) {
@@ -273,9 +273,9 @@ new function() {
 
 	function applyTransform(item, value, name, node) {
 		// http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/types.html#DataTypeTransformList
-		var transforms = node[name].baseVal,
+		var transforms = node[name] && node[name].baseVal,
 			matrix = new Matrix();
-		for (var i = 0, l = transforms.numberOfItems; i < l; i++) {
+		for (var i = 0, l = transforms && transforms.numberOfItems; i < l; i++) {
 			var mx = transforms.getItem(i).matrix;
 			matrix.concatenate(
 				new Matrix(mx.a, mx.b, mx.c, mx.d, mx.e, mx.f));

src/svg/SVGNamespaces.js

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+/*
+ * Paper.js - The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting.
+ * http://paperjs.org/
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2011 - 2013, Juerg Lehni & Jonathan Puckey
+ * http://lehni.org/ & http://jonathanpuckey.com/
+ *
+ * Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE file for details.
+ *
+ * All rights reserved.
+ */
+
+var SVGNamespaces = {
+	href: 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink',
+	xlink: 'http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns'
+};