String to SVGElement?

[Bishop, Michael W. CONTR J9C880]

Hello,      This question is probably mostly XML-related, but it does apply to how I’m using Batik in a whiteboard.  I want to communicate SVGDocument changes via XMPP and I send elements as strings:   <svg:rect fill-opacity="1"                stroke="black"                id="SVGWB-0C6554F5-1BDC-CC92-88DD-6CDA9D756999"                transform="translate(0.0, 0.0) scale(1.0, 1.0) rotate(0.0, 243.0, 283.0)"                width="274"                stroke-opacity="1"                svgx:cx="243.0"                svgx:sx="1.0"                fill="gray"                svgx:t="0.0"                svgx:my="0.0"                svgx:cy="283.0"                svgx:sy="1.0"                stroke-width="1"                height="220"                pointer-events="visible"                svgx:mx="0.0"                x="106"                y="173"                xmlns:svg=http://www.w3.org/2000/svg                xmlns:svgx="http://je.jfcom.mil/svgx"/>   When the client receives this data, I want to “import” that string data as a Node / SVGElement in the client document.  Is there a way to import this data with the proper namespacing, document ownership, etc., that is required to add the element information as a proper element?   Michael Bishop