How to cut a rectangular area from a figure in svg format?

Question

Web development

Given: Two rectangles. First rectangle with coordinates (0, 0, 1200, 500). Second rectangle with coordinates (170, 170, 700, 350). How to cut a smaller rectangle out of a larger one using Snap.svg?

Answer 1

Aingis :
Assuming that the background is initially white, then the result shown in the picture should be obtained.