I have a hand-coded svg file with a number of text
labels on rectangle objects. The file displays
properly when opened in sodipodi 0.34 (more correctly -
current CVS). If saved as svg with sodipodi namespace,
it is ok. If saved as plain svg, all the text objects
are converted into single line objects (ie <text
...params... />) with all the correct parameters for
the text, just no actual text!