'visibility' attribute not loaded correctly

Reproduced (i.e. confirmed) with stable Inkscape releases (0.46 - 0.48.2) and current trunk (0.48+devel r10720) on Mac OS X 10.5.8 (i386).

tebjan wrote:
> status: New → Incomplete

Not sure why you changed the bug status to 'Incomplete' - since you reported the issue yourself, do you plan to add additional information? (The bug status usually is set to 'Incomplete' by members of the bug team if the report does not include all required information for bug triage, or additional information is needed). For now, I'll wait with confirming your report.

ups, wasn't my intension... was just trying the interface out.. changed back to new.

Related ('visibility' property not supported -> Inkscape currently only supports 'display' property):
 Bug #166042 in Inkscape: “visible child in hidden parent”
 Bug #166181 in Inkscape: “Support for visibility property”

Quoting from bug #166042 - 2004-11-07:
«[One complication in evaluating inkscape's behaviour
with that one-line test case I gave on jabber is that
until Sunday, Inkscape wasn't reading visibility
attributes, it only consulted visibility in style strings.]»

Quoting from bug #166042 - 2004-11-20:
«This is less relevant now that we switched to display
property. CSS visibility property is not officially
supported still.»

Quoting from bug #166181 - 2005-01-05:
«I'm considering doing a buggy implementation of the
visibility property, where visibility:hidden would hide all
descendent objects too (even descendents that requested
visibility:visible).»

Proposing to link as duplicate to bug #166181.

Linking as duplicate to bug #166181 - please add a comment here (bug #886246) and revert the duplicate status if you don't agree and think there are different issues.