Turn SVG path into line segments

Question

I am trying to turn a SVG path into a list of points in Node. I\'m using elementtree to parse the SVG file.

d is the definition for the path, getPos simply turns a \

Answer 1

SVG contains its own path segment parser so why reinvent the wheel. Try building on this: http://jsfiddle.net/longsonr/skWH5/

In gecko the path is parsed by starting at the beginning, reading one non-whitespace character, then using a table of the number of expected arguments that follow to know to read so many numbers (which may have up to one comma separating them). This continues till the end of the string.