complex line style

[Amy Comstock]

All,

I have a set of third party svg's. They all draw a symbol or are an example 
of a fill pattern.

The svg's are set up like this:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; xml:space="preserve" width="xxmm" 
height="xxmm" style="shape-rendering:geometricPrecision; 
text-rendering:geometricPrecision; image-rendering:optimizeQuality; 
fill-rule:evenodd; clip-rule:evenodd"
viewBox="0 0 xx yy">

<defs>
        cdata section
</defs>
<g id="xx">
        <g id="yy">
                <line/path/polyline/etc id="zz" class="abc" coordinate list>
        </g>
        there may be multiple subgroups, all with separate id's
</g>
</svg>

What I need to do is outline a line/polyline/polygon/path using these svg's.
I tried creating a pattern using the third party svg and then setting the 
pattern as the stroke. The problem is, that doesn't orient the svg correctly.

This is what the svg I'm using looks like:

Emacs!


When using that svg as the stroke pattern, I end up with this:

Emacs!







What I really want is this, to draw the edges using the pattern:
Emacs!




Any ideas on how to do this? Is it even possible?

I'm using apache batik to do the drawing in a jsvgcanvas.

Thank you.
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