If I am not mistaken, these are not error messages but warning, indicating that some parts of the SVG file are skipped, as Processing doesn't know how to process them.
If they are essential to your SVG, you might need to change it until it works.

Hello all,

I'm having the same issue. Well, not so much an issue as PhiLho said, but a warning. It's not effecting anything, so this question is more of a curiosity of what Processing is confused about.

My code is very similar to taraandtheworld's with a few added elements. This is purely self educational, as I'm still teaching myself Processing/Android:

1. PShape test = new PShape();
2. int i = 0;
3. 
   
4. void setup()
5. {
6.   test = loadShape("genericSVG.svg");
7.   shapeMode(CENTER);
8.   rectMode(CENTER);
9.   textAlign(CENTER, CENTER);
10.   textSize(36);
11. }
12. 
    
13. void draw()
14. {
15.   background(255, 255, 75);
16.   fill(255, 75, 75);
17.   rect(width/2, height/2, i, i);
18.   fill(0);
19.   text("HELLO WORLD", width/2, height/2);
20.   shape(test, width/2, height/2, width, height);
21.   if(i == width)
22.   {
23.     i = 0;
24.   }
25.   i++;
26. }

The warning I'm getting is:

1. debug:
2. Ignoring <#text> tag.
3. beginContour(), or this particular variation of it, is not available with this renderer.
4. endContour(), or this particular variation of it, is not available with this renderer.

Again, everything works fine. But to PhiLho's comment:

...indicating that some parts of the SVG file are skipped, as Processing doesn't know how to process them.
If they are essential to your SVG, you might need to change it until it works.

I'm just curious about what "IT" is and what changes would be needed to resolve the (non)issue? FYI: I'm making my .svg files in Illustrator, if that is of any consequence.

Thanks for entertaining me.

EDIT: Here's the breakdown of the SVG file. I'm not seeing anything that says <#text> or beginContor(), which is what fuels my curiosity. Thanks.

1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
2. <!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 15.0.2, SVG Export Plug-In  -->
3. <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd" [
4.     <!ENTITY ns_flows "http://ns.adobe.com/Flows/1.0/">
5. ]>
6. <svg version="1.1"
7.      xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:a="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeSVGViewerExtensions/3.0/"
8.      x="0px" y="0px" width="240px" height="400px" viewBox="0 0 240 400" overflow="visible" enable-background="new 0 0 240 400"
9.      xml:space="preserve">
10. <defs>
11. </defs>
12. <path fill="#8DC63F" d="M240,400H0V0h240V400z M120,276.881c42.46,0,76.881-34.421,76.881-76.881S162.46,123.119,120,123.119
13.     S43.119,157.54,43.119,200S77.54,276.881,120,276.881z"/>
14. </svg>

I tried your code with your SVG file in Processing 2.0b9, and got no warnings.
For the record, #text marks plain text between XML tags.

huh. I tried it with the newest version of Processing (2 that was released yesterday) and got the same errors. No harm. It still works. But your tip of

For the record, #text marks plain text between XML tags.

Helped make a bit more sense of things.

Once again, thanks.

Maybe the issue is with the SVG file itself, potentially an issue I don't have with my simple copy & paste.
For example, Microsoft has decided (unilaterally) to create an UTF-8 BOM, which is not only unnecessary, but can choke some parsers... If you have such strange binary chars in your file, that haven't survived the copy & paste, I cannot reproduce the problem.

In the interest of science, I ran it in Java mode and it works fine with no errors. Only in Android mode in the emulator. While I made my SVG in Illustrator, I opened it up in TextWrangler to look at the code and played around with the file. Ultimately I ended up with this:

<svg x="0px" y="0px" width="240px" height="400px">
<rect fill="#123456" width="240" height="400"/>
<circle fill="#697754" cx="120" cy="200" r="76.881"/>
</svg>

That's the entire chuck of code in the SVG file. A simple rectangle with a circle over it. Seems the the beginContour and endContour warnings were caused by the fact that I used the circle to "punch a hole through" the rectangle or in other words, created a compound shape in my first SVG I attempted to use (not this current one). Sure, with a simple circle, I could have used beginContour() and endContour() right in my sketch, but I wanted to be able to create my vector using some of the freedom of design that Illustrator allows (read: I can draw what I want and let Adobe compile the SVG).

So while Processing gave a warning, it still processed the contour (compound shape).

As for the <#text> warning- no clue what's triggering that. Even in my most basic SVG you see above I still get that warning.

I'm going to write it off as an oddity for now since it's all just a warning for now until I get to more complex vector graphics and if it becomes an issue then. When/If I do more complex SVGs, I'll report back any findings/warning messages here.

Oh, and also for science, I also loaded the program onto my device (HTC EVO LTE) and it runs fine. Processing still gives that same warnings from my first post within this topic.