Embedded SVG paths don't get scaled
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Description
I'm generating an SVG file that links to other SVG files using `` tags. When I view the resulting parent SVG in a browser, things look fine, but when I use CairoSVG to convert it to PDF, the paths inside the child SVG don't get scaled.
Attached are some examples that illustrate the problem. If you look at `japanese.svg`, you see a series of paths (baked from text) on a blue background, filling the viewbox. If you open `assembled.svg` in Firefox or Chrome, you can see that image, referenced via an `` tag, centered and resized.
However, you can see in `assembled.pdf` the result of running `cairosvg ./assembled.svg -o ./assembled.pdf`. The background rectangle is appropriately sized, but the paths are not. (Screenshot below.)

I have control over the generation of both the child and the parent files, so if there's some change to the markup I can make which would fix this, please let me know. Otherwise I think this might be a bug.
[embedded-svg-bug.zip](https://github.com/Kozea/CairoSVG/files/6523957/embedded-svg-bug.zip)
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Unpack embedded-svg-bug.zip and compare japanese.svg, assembled.svg, and assembled.pdf. Reproduce the report with `cairosvg ./assembled.svg -o ./assembled.pdf`, then trace embedded-image rendering from the CairoSVG entry point. Done means paths inside the child SVG scale with its background in the generated PDF.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- computer-graphics
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100