Added removeElement(<tagName>) and removeComments() methods

Author: Ascari

cleanSVG.py

@@ -258,6 +258,26 @@ def removeAttribute(self, attribute, exception_list=None):
                 if self._verbose: print ' - Removed attribute: %s="%s"' % (attribute, element.attrib[attribute])
                 del element.attrib[attribute]
 
+    def removeElement(self, tagName):
+        """ Remove all instances of an element. """
+
+        if self._verbose: print '\nRemoving element: %s' % tagName
+
+        for element in self.tree.iter():
+            if (isinstance(element.tag, basestring)):
+                tag = element.tag.split('}')[1]
+                if tag == tagName:
+                    element.getparent().remove(element)
+
+    def removeComments(self):
+        """ Remove all comments. """
+
+        if self._verbose: print '\nRemoving comments'
+
+        for element in self.tree.iter():
+            if element.tag is etree.Comment:
+                element.getparent().remove(element)
+
     def removeNonDefIDAttributes(self):
         """ Go through def elements and find IDs referred to, then remove all IDs except those. """
 

example.py

@@ -8,5 +8,9 @@
 svg.removeAttribute('id')
 svg.setDecimalPlaces(1)
 svg.extractStyles()
+svg.removeElement('title')
+svg.removeElement('desc')
+svg.removeElement('defs')
+svg.removeComments()
 svg.applyTransforms()
 svg.write(output_file)

readme.md

@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ Python program to clean up SVG files, particularly those created by Inkscape or
 ## Remove attributes
 	Remove attributes with a given name, e.g. remove 'id' attributes, which often aren't used.
 
+## Remove comments
+    Removes all comments.
+
+## Remove elements
+    Remove elements by their tag name.
+
 ## Remove namespaces
 	Remove all attributes associated with a given namespace, e.g. remove 'sodipodi' attributes created by Inkscape.