Efficient way of "selecting" an element?

[Bishop, Michael W. CONTR J9C880]

I have a scenario where I’d like to click in the JSVGCanvas and “select” the SVG element I’m clicking inside of.  Short of iterating through the document and creating Java2D objects in which to check to see if my clicked point is “inside” of, is there a way in Batik to see which elements a point resides in?   Michael Bishop