Convert XPS to SVG

Question

Is there a direct and fast way to convert XPS (XML Paper Specification) files to SVG format?

I can convert XPS to PDF and then using inkscape to convert them to SVG. But the PDF->SVG step is very time consuming though this process seems is not CPU consuming.

My understanding is that be cause XPS is a vector based format, converting it to another vector based format like SVG must be feasible and much faster than converting raster based format (though i'm not entirely sure pdf is just raster base) to vector based formats.

BTW, the goal is to display vector based images in browser, and I've XPS files.

Answer 1

libgxps reads XPS and can create SVG files.

I tried it on Cygwin with the xpstosvg command and worked fine.