The rectangle the chart's scales map onto: the viewBox minus the
space reserved for axis decoration, in viewBox user units. Without
axes it equals the box.
x0/y0 are the top-left corner, x1/y1 the bottom-right one,
and width/height the extents between them. Every chart child that
needs to know where the plot starts reads this rather than
subtracting an inset from the box itself - one derivation, so the
scales and the axis lines cannot drift apart.
A collapsed plot (a box narrower than the room its axes need) reports
width or height at or below 0. Readers guard on the extent; the
chart hands out its NOOP scale in the same case.