Crash on svg with <use> tags referencing external svg files

[strindhaug]

If the html contains svg with an external svg-file in the use tag then the html-to-image functions crash.

Expected Behavior

I'd expect it to work without issue.

Current Behavior

The javascript crashes, with a message saying something like

Document.querySelector: '/gfx/sprites.svg?v=v123#some-icon' is not a valid selector

Possible Solution

It looks like the code in ensureSVGSymbols blindly assumes the xlink:href attribute is a valid queryselector to an svg element elsewhere in the document.
I'm pretty sure the xlink:href and href attribute is not required to be a valid queryselector since the spec says it's an URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/struct.html#UseElementHrefAttribute
and it does work on our website.

The fact that it works when the use-tag refers to an embedded element is mostly an accident.

I'm not quite sure how to fix it so that ensureSVGSymbols would work with both files and local references;
but at least if you wrapped these two querySelector's in try/catch or verify that the "id" variable is a valid css selector before using it,
it would at least not crash, and you'll still get an image possibly missing a few icons rather than nothing.

Steps To Reproduce

Try to use any of toPng, toJpeg, toBlob, toPixelData, toSvg on html containing an svg defined something like this:

<svg viewBox="0 0 135 57"><use xlink:href="/gfx/sprites.svg?v=v123#some-icon" href="/gfx/sprites.svg?v=v123#some-icon"></use></svg>

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[Tilesto]

Absolutely the same issue. Not working with sprites
+1

[MatthiasGrandl]

+1

[cgmonte]

+1