User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050906 Firefox/1.6a1 If I set an SVGPathElement's d attribute with: path.setAttributeNS(null,'d',"M100,100 L50,50 20,20"); then retrieve the path with getAttributeNS the path attribute has changed, I expect it to remain consistent. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. path.setAttributeNS(null,'d',pathString) 2. path.getAttributeNS(null,'d') != pathString Actual Results: Different strings Expected Results: the same strings

The problem is that the SVG DOM exposes subparts of that attribute, so to create the DOM data structures you have to parse the string. Then when you get the valuem the DOM data structures are serialized... and there you are.

In order to conserve memory we just aren't going to keep the original string around.