When used as an svg transform attribute, it appears as follows:
transform="matrix(0 1 1 0 0 0)"
<svg width="300" height="100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<symbol id="pos" >
<path fill="none" stroke="black" d="M20,80 V20 H80 M20,20 80,80" />
<circle cx="20" cy="20" r="10" fill="red" />
<circle cx="80" cy="20" r="10" fill="yellow" />
<circle cx="20" cy="80" r="10" fill="green" />
<circle cx="80" cy="80" r="10" fill="blue" />
</symbol>
<!-- transposed -->
<use xlink:href="#pos" transform="matrix(0 1 1 0 0 0)" />
<!-- original, but moved to the side for comparison -->
<use xlink:href="#pos" transform="translate(150)" />
</svg>
In the svgpath syntax, this transformation is represented as:
svgpath(__your_path__).matrix([0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0])