The SVG sample will only work if you have an SVG viewer installed on your system. Otherwise, you should see the raw XML file.

View SVG sample XML File (SVG-enabled browsers only) You can get viewers from Adobe and Corel.

This is the SVG File in an <EMBED> tag:

This is a .PNG screenshot of the application that created the SVG file above:

Also, see the new interactive SVG generated using version 2.3: SVG sample