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yes i think if we have to write very customised version of svg rendering then it would be like writing another graphics system, why bother with svg then?

on second thaught if xml is used for encoding and declaration of a perticular drawing, then what is used to render actual svg? is this again going on OS's graphical system?

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There are many SVG rasterizers out there. This one is okay:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librsvg

Could just be that I'm a cross-platform guy, but it seems like most programs bypass the OS rasterization stack (rendering fonts/curves/polygons/etc. with open source libraries rather than native OS facilities, and sending the OS a finished bitmap). This choice probably addressed a mix of cross-platform consistency issues, as well as the lowest-common-denominator problem.

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