This module allows a KanjiVG file to easily be read, parsed, and written. It also contains functions which enable bulk editing of the KanjiVG files.

This library automatically renumbers XML ids when writing a file. For example, if you exchange the order of the text elements in the Go structure, the values of id of the text elements in the output file will be numbered in the order of the Go structure, disregarding the order they were in originally. If you change the top level name of the character in the base element, the names of all of the other elements will be changed. The id values of paths and groups are renumbered in the order they appear in the structure, discarding their original numbering. In other words, when reordering elements or adding elements, the library user only needs to think about the tree of Child, Group, Text, and Path elements, and does not need to give the elements numbers by himself.

There is an example, read-write-test, in the cmd subdirectory, which reads all the files in kvg.KVDir, then writes the XML back out again, to check that the formats are kept identical.