Illustrator SVG Effects Coding Issues

I am having some REAL big problems coding SVG XML and having it being reproduced in Illustrator as I am expecting. Major problem right now is the feColorMatrix effect. I understand the effect and how the matrix changes the pixels but problem I am having is that when I specify 0.5 as the final output result on any of the color channel rows, Illustrator is not interpreting 0.5 as RGB 127, in other words, 50% the color value. It is more like 0.215 equates to 127 RGB decimal. Here is some code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<svg
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
    version="1.2"
    viewBox="0 0 576 432"
    width="576"
    height="432"
    baseProfile="tiny"
    id="NicoleLovesSVG">
    <g id="Canvas">
        <rect
            width="576"
            height="432"
            x="0"
            y="0"
            transform="scale(1,1)"
            id="Canvas-Rect1"
            style="fill:#9d8654;fill-rule:evenodd;" />
    </g>
    <defs>
        <filter id="ShadowFilter-Text1" filterUnits="objectBoundingBox" primitiveUnits="userSpaceOnUse" width="200%" height="200%" x="-50%" y="-50%">
            <feColorMatrix type="matrix"  in="SourceAlpha"
                values="0 0 0 0 .5
                    0 0 0 0 0
                    0 0 0 0 0
                    0 0 0 1 0"/>
            <feOffset dx="24.395183950936" dy="24.395183950936" result="shadow"/>
            <feBlend in="SourceGraphic" in2="shadow" mode="normal"/>
        </filter>
    </defs>
    <g
        id="Text1"
        transform="translate(1.1272727272727,297.27272727273) rotate(0) scale(3.5238813920454546,2.642911044034091)"
        style="fill:#003300;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:evenodd;stroke:#ff0000;stroke-width:15px;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-opacity:1;"
        filter="url(#ShadowFilter-Text1)">
            <g
                id="Text1-Line1"
                transform="translate(0,0)">
                <path
                    transform="translate(0,0)"
                    vector-effect="non-scaling-stroke"
                    id="Text1-Line1-Glyph1"
                    d="M 0,0 M 46.4,-98.24 L 46.4,-15.68 C 46.4,-8.96 47.466666666667,-3.7333333333333 49.6,-0 L 30.4,-0 C 32.533333333333,-3.7333333333333 33.6,-8.96 33.6,-15.68 L 33.6,-98.24 L 31.36,-98.24 C 21.653333333333,-98.24 12.106666666667,-96.373333333333 2.72,-92.64 L 8.32,-106.72 L 79.68,-106.72 L 74.56,-92.64 C 68.693333333333,-96.48 59.306666666667,-98.346666666667 46.4,-98.24 z" />
            </g>
    </g>
</svg>
As you can see, the first filter retrieves the SourceAlpha which is all black. Then the color matrix takes that and does this on the first row of the matrix:
(a x red) + (b x green) + (c x blue) + (d x alpha) + e = final red output
plugging in the numbers:
(0 x 0) + (0 x 0) + (0 x 0) + (0 x 0) + 0.5 = 0.5
Should be 50% red! Or 127 RGB!!! I did the math and in Illy it is more like 0.215 = 127 = 50% ??????

This has been answered: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8214924/illustrator-svg-effects-coding-issues

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         * Abort any ongoing enqueue or dequeue
         if (nq)
              mtaEnqueueFinish(nq, MTA_ABORT, 0);
         if (dq)
              mtaDequeueMessageFinish(dq, MTA_ABORT, 0);
         * And return our error status
         return(ires);
    #undef CHECK
    * decode_inspect() -- This is the routine that inspects each
    * message part, deciding whether to accept
    * or reject it.
    * See explanatory comment 10
    static int decode_inspect(void *ctx, mta_decode_t *dctx, int data_type,const char *data, size_t data_len)
         char buf[BIGALFA_SIZE * 2 + 10];
         const char *virname;
         int i;
         static unsigned int part_c = 1;
         msg_temp_data_t *msg_data = (msg_temp_data_t *)ctx;
         strncpy(buf,data,data_len);
         buf[data_len] = 0;
         mtaLog("decode_inspect() (%d,%ud): %s",data_type,dctx,buf);
         switch (data_type)
              case MTA_DATA_HEADER:
              * See if the part has:
              * 1. A bad MIME content-type,
              * 2. A bad file name extension in the (deprecated)
              * NAME= content-type parameter, or
              * 3. A bad file name extension in the
              * FILENAME= content-disposition parameter.
              i = 0;
              if ((i = is_bad_mime_type((void *)msg_data->options, dctx, buf, sizeof(buf))) ||
                   is_bad_file_type((void *)msg_data->options,mtaDecodeMessageInfoParams(dctx,MTA_DECODE_CTYPE_PARAMS, NULL),"NAME", buf, sizeof(buf)) ||
                   is_bad_file_type((void *)msg_data->options,mtaDecodeMessageInfoParams(dctx,MTA_DECODE_CDISP_PARAMS, NULL),"FILENAME", buf, sizeof(buf)))
                   char msg[BIGALFA_SIZE*4 + 10];
                   * Replace this part with a text message indicating
                   * that the part&#30196; content has been deleted.
                   * See explanatory comment 11
                   if (i)
                        i = sprintf(msg,
                             "The content of this message part has been removed.\n"
                             "It contained a potentially harmful media type of %.*s",
                             strlen(buf)-2, buf+1);
                   else
                        i = sprintf(msg,
                             "The content of this message part has been removed.\n"
                             "It contained a potentially harmful file named '%s'", buf);
                   mtaLog("decode_inspect(): %s",msg);
                   return(mtaDecodeMessagePartDelete(dctx,
                        MTA_REASON, msg, i,
                        MTA_DECODE_CTYPE, "text", 4,
                        MTA_DECODE_CSUBTYPE, "plain", 5,
                        MTA_DECODE_CCHARSET, "us-ascii", 8,
                        MTA_DECODE_CDISP, "inline", 6,
                        MTA_DECODE_CLANG, "en", 2, 0));
              } break; // case MTA_DATA_HEADER:
              case MTA_DATA_TEXT:
              case MTA_DATA_BINARY:
                   if (msg_data->temp_file == NULL)
                        sprintf(msg_data->temp_file_name,"/tmp/%i.tmp",part_c++);
                        mtaLog("messageDecode(): Opening Temp File %s",msg_data->temp_file_name);
                        msg_data->temp_file = fopen(msg_data->temp_file_name,"wb");
                   fwrite(data,data_len,1,msg_data->temp_file);
                   return(MTA_OK);
                   break;
              case MTA_DATA_NONE:
                   fflush(msg_data->temp_file);
                   fclose(msg_data->temp_file);
                   msg_data->temp_file = NULL;
                   struct cl_limits limits;
                   memset(&limits, 0, sizeof(struct cl_limits));
                   /* maximal number of files in archive */;
                   limits.maxfiles = 1000;
                   /* maximal archived file size */
                   limits.maxfilesize = 10 * 1048576; /* 10 MB */
                   /* maximal recursion level */
                   limits.maxreclevel = 5;
                   /* maximal compression ratio */
                   limits.maxratio = 200;
                   /* disable memory limit for bzip2 scanner */
                   limits.archivememlim = 0;
                   i = cl_scanfile(msg_data->temp_file_name, &virname, NULL, msg_data->options->root,&limits,CL_SCAN_STDOPT);
                   unlink (msg_data->temp_file_name);
                   if(i == CL_VIRUS) {
                        char msg[BIGALFA_SIZE*4 + 10];
                        size_t idlen;
                        i = sprintf(msg,
                             "The content of this message part has been removed.\n"
                             "It contained the virus %s in a file named '%s'", virname,buf);
                        mtaDequeueInfo(dctx,MTA_ENV_ID,&buf,&idlen);
                        buf[idlen] = '\0';
                        mtaLog("decode_inspect(): Detected %s virus in part %i of msg ID %s",virname,0,buf);
                        return(mtaDecodeMessagePartDelete(dctx,
                             MTA_REASON, msg, i,
                             MTA_DECODE_CTYPE, "text", 4,
                             MTA_DECODE_CSUBTYPE, "plain", 5,
                             MTA_DECODE_CCHARSET, "us-ascii", 8,
                             MTA_DECODE_CDISP, "inline", 6,
                             MTA_DECODE_CLANG, "en", 2, 0));
                   } else {
                        if(i != CL_CLEAN)
                             mtaLog("decode_inspect() Error: %s scanning file %s",cl_strerror(i),msg_data->temp_file_name);
                        else
                             mtaLog("decode_inspect(): Part in file %s is clean",msg_data->temp_file_name);
                        //return(mtaDecodeMessagePartCopy(dctx, 0));
                        return(MTA_OK); break;
         return(MTA_OK);
    * is_bad_mime_type() -- See if the part&#30196; media type is in our
    * bad MIME content types, for example:
    * application/vbscript
    * See explanatory comment 13
    static int is_bad_mime_type(our_options_t *options,
    mta_decode_t *dctx, char *buf,
    size_t maxbuflen)
         const char *csubtype, *ctype;
         size_t i, len1, len2;
         char *ptr;
         * Sanity checks
         if (!options || !options->bmt_len ||
              !options->bad_mime_types[0] ||
              !dctx)
              return(0);
         * Get the MIME content type
         ctype = mtaDecodeMessageInfoString(dctx, MTA_DECODE_CTYPE,NULL, &len1);
         csubtype = mtaDecodeMessageInfoString(dctx,MTA_DECODE_CSUBTYPE,NULL, &len2);
         * Build the string: <0x01>type/subtype<0x01><0x00>
         ptr = buf;
         *ptr++ = (char)0x01;
         for (i = 0; i < len1; i++)
              *ptr++ = tolower(*ctype++);
         *ptr++ = '/';
         for (i = 0; i < len2; i++)
              *ptr++ = tolower(*csubtype++);
         *ptr++ = (char)0x01;
         *ptr = '\0';
         * Now see if the literal just built occurs in the list of
         * bad MIME content types
         return((strstr(options->bad_mime_types, buf)) ? -1 : 0);
    * is_bad_file_type() -- See if the part has an associated file
    * name whose file extension is in our list
    * of bad file names, such as .vbs.
    * See explanatory comment 14
    static int is_bad_file_type(our_options_t *options,
    mta_opt_t *params,
    const char *param_name, char *buf,
    size_t maxbuflen)
         const char *ptr1;
         char fext[BIGALFA_SIZE+2], *ptr2;
         size_t i, len;
         * Sanity checks
         if (!options || !options->bft_len || !params || !param_name)
              return(0);
         len = 0;
         buf[0] = '\0';
         if (mtaOptionString(params, param_name, 0, buf, &len,
              maxbuflen - 1) ||
              !len || !buf[0])
              * No file name parameter specified
              return(0);
         * A file name parameter was specified. Parse it to
         * extract the file extension portion, if any.
         ptr1 = strrchr(buf, '.');
         if (!ptr1)
              * No file extension specified
              return(0);
         * Now store the string created earlier in fext[]
         * Note that we drop the &#12539;&#12539;from the extension.
         ptr1++; /* Skip over the &#12539;&#12539;*/
         ptr2 = fext;
         *ptr2++ = (char)0x01;
         len = len - (ptr1 - buf);
         for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
              *ptr2++ = tolower(*ptr1++);
         *ptr2++ = (char)0x01;
         *ptr2++ = '\0';
         * Now return -1 if the string occurs in
         * options->bad_file_types.
         return((strstr(options->bad_file_types, fext)) ? -1 : 0);
    * load_options() -- Load our channel options from the channel&#30196;
    * option file
    * See explanatory comment 15
    static int load_options(our_options_t *options)
         char buf[BIGALFA_SIZE+1];
         size_t buflen, i;
         mta_opt_t *channel_opts;
         int ires;
         const char *ptr0;
         char *ptr1;
         * Initialize the our private channel option structure
         memset(options, 0, sizeof(our_options_t));
         * Set internal defaults for important features
         options->scan_maxsize = 10 * 1024 * 1024; // 10 MB
         options->scan_recursion_level = 10;
         options->scan_maxfiles = 200;
         strcpy(options->db_dir,cl_retdbdir()); // Default ClamAV Directory
         * Access the channel&#30196; option file
         * See explanatory comment 16
         channel_opts = NULL;
         if ((ires = mtaOptionStart(&channel_opts, "/var/opt/SUNWmsgsr/site-programs/msgsr_clamav.cnf", 0, 0)))
              mtaLog("Unable to access our channel option file");
              return(ires);
         * DEBUG=0|1
         options->debug = 0;
         mtaOptionInt(channel_opts, "DEBUG", 0, &options->debug);
         if (options->debug)
              mtaDebug(MTA_DEBUG_SDK, 0);
         * BAD_MIME_TYPES=type1/subtype1[,type2/subtype2[,...]]
         buf[0] = '\0';
         mtaOptionString(channel_opts, "BAD_MIME_TYPES", 0, buf,
         &buflen, sizeof(buf));
         * Now translate the comma separated list:
         * Type1/Subtype1[,Type2/Subtype2[,...]]
         * to
         *<0x01>type1/subtype1[<0x01>type2/subtype2[<0x01>...]]<0x01>
         ptr0 = buf;
         ptr1 = options->bad_mime_types;
         *ptr1++ = (char)0x01;
         for (i = 0; i < buflen; i++)
              if (*ptr0 != ',')
                   *ptr1++ = tolower(*ptr0++);
              else
                   *ptr1++ = (char)0x01;
                   ptr0++;
         *ptr1++ = (char)0x01;
         *ptr1 = '\0';
         options->bmt_len = ptr1 - options->bad_mime_types;
         * BAD_FILE_TYPES=["."]Ext1[,["."]Ext2[,...]]
         buf[0] = '\0';
         buflen = 0;
         mtaOptionString(channel_opts, "BAD_FILE_TYPES", 0, buf,
         &buflen, sizeof(buf));
         * Now translate the comma separated list:
         * ["."]Ext1[,["."]Ext2[,...]]
         * to
         * <0x01>ext1[<0x01>ext2[<0x01>...]]<0x01>
         ptr0 = buf;
         ptr1 = options->bad_file_types;
         *ptr1++ = (char)0x01;
         for (i = 0; i < buflen; i++)
              switch(*ptr0)
                   default : /* copy after translating to lower case */
                        *ptr1++ = tolower(*ptr0++);
                        break;
                   case '.' : /* discard */
                        break;
                   case ',' : /* end current type */
                        *ptr1++ = (char)0x01;
                        ptr0++;
                   break;
         *ptr1++ = (char)0x01;
         *ptr1 = '\0';
         options->bft_len = ptr1 - options->bad_file_types;
         * Dispose of the mta_opt_t context
         * See explanatory comment 17
         mtaOptionFinish(channel_opts);
         * And return a success
         return(MTA_OK);
    * error_report() &#12539;Report an error condition when debugging is
    * enabled.
    static void error_report(our_options_t *options, int ires,
    const char *func)
         if (options->debug)
              mtaLog("%s() returned %d; %s",
                   (func ? func : "?"), ires, mtaStrError(ires,0));
    static void error_reports(our_options_t *options, const char* errStr,
    const char *func)
         if (options->debug)
              mtaLog("%s() reported: %s",
                   (func ? func : "?"), errStr);
    * error_exit() -- Exit with an error status and error message.
    static void error_exit(int ires, const char *msg)
         mtaLog("%s%s%s", (msg ? msg : ""), (msg ? "; " : ""),
         mtaStrError(ires,0));
         exit(1);
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