I found a map svg, that was practically ready to be launched. I just thought it would be cool to keep on my computer for when I didn't knew any more maps to make. Because of the large number of territories I tried Matma Rex's ID-generator tool. But it didn't work because all territories already had an ID (they were all named polygon_#). I guess that's because they were polygons first, until I transferred them to paths. But is there a way to remove all ID's so Matma's tool can work on it?

SVG is a human-readable format; if you have access to a machine you can run Perl on, a simple Perl script would strip them all out.

< oldfile.svg perl -nwe 's/\s*id=\"polygon_\d+\"\s*\n//; print;' > newfile.svg

or something like that.

I don't know anything about scripting.

If I understood it right, you have a lot of objects with IDs of **polygon_#** and you want to remove those IDs to be able to give them proper IDs of **Territory_#**. If it's true, just open SVG file with your favorite text editor and use "replace all" (or any similar function) to replace all **polygon_** in a file by **Territory_**, and you wouldn't even need to use the generator.

What kind of editor are you talking about? Something like Word? I don't think that can open svg files...

You can open an SVG in Notepad, actually.

Okay, I did as you said, but now it has turned into a txt file and Inkscape can't open it!

I guess you did it with something like Notepad and accidentally saved your file as *filename***.txt**. Try to manually rename it to *filename***.svg**.

This is the power of SVG: simple text file, and I suggest to get some cool text editor, I can recommend [Notepad++](http://notepad-plus-plus.org/).