# transform element

The transform element specifies the position of an object on the display. The transform element appears in the exported XML file when an object without a path attribute is manually rotated or flipped after it has been created. The attributes are matrix-mathematical values relating to the object's default position.

Important: | This element is not intended to be edited by the user. It exists in the exported XML file solely to ensure that an object that has been manually rotated or flipped after it was created is redrawn in the same position when the XML graphic file is re-imported.

The arc, wedge, roundedRectangle, and ellipse graphic object elements contain the transform element.

Element name: transform

## See also

transform element attributes