This was a good introduction to SVG. Honestly, I have been using SVG for quite some time so most of this was a refresher. Being that it was written in 2002, there were lots of very old references. Chrome didn't exists, SVG support in browsers was bleak. The book has PERL and Java examples to generate SVGs. The appendices include introductions to XML and CSS. Finally, the book repeatedly mentions upcoming changes in SVG 2.0 that will fix some things, which, as of the day of this writing, is still being worked on.