Actually how about JDOM? Can it be used with Batik?It can, as can dom4j.
However, in both cases you have to either add the
resulting w3c-DOM document to your SVGCanvas by setDocument(org.w3c.dom.Document) or
(Thomas has suggested this to me for speed reasons,
which you seem very concerned with) write your
own extension to the document parser to have JDOM produce a batik-DOM document.
Currently, I am using the first way with dom4j,
but the second shouldn't be that hard if you know
what you're doing.
hth -Urs
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