From 8c4c85b9333c69d14cec9099eecbb4cc2dac2153 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: aurium <aurium@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:32:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] adding getElementById() to inkex

---
 share/extensions/inkex.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/share/extensions/inkex.py b/share/extensions/inkex.py
index 2ae5d6c21..665575c6b 100755
--- a/share/extensions/inkex.py
+++ b/share/extensions/inkex.py
@@ -166,6 +166,14 @@ class Effect:
             for node in self.document.xpath(path, namespaces=NSS):
                 self.selected[i] = node
 
+    def getElementById(self, id):
+        path = '//*[@id="%s"]' % id
+        el_list = self.document.xpath(path, namespaces=NSS)
+        if el_list:
+          return el_list[0]
+        else:
+          return None
+
     def getdocids(self):
         docIdNodes = self.document.xpath('//@id', namespaces=NSS)
         for m in docIdNodes:
-- 
2.30.2