I recently noticed that embedded bitmaps in SVG files exported from (Windows) Corel X3 (=v.13) get the windows-typical backslashes rather than forward slashes in their file references in the generated SVG files. Therefore these files do not show the bitmaps when opened on Inkscape in Linux. It can be easily fixed by manually replacing the forward slashes by backslashes (which is tedious, however).
Is that defined in the SVG standard? Is Corel goofing, or is inkscape not correctly considering files generated on a different platform?
--hasi.

This is probably a good issue to take to the developers.

I run the windows version of Inkscape and it uses a windows styled filepath as well - so it seems this may also be an issue between Windows Inkscape and Linux Inkscape, although it's odd it hasn't been noticed before.