Reading in the SVG DOM

[Jim Goodwin <JG...@affinnova.com>]

Hello all, 

I need a pure Java library to read SVG files into the SVG DOM.
I assumed that function was buried in Batik somewhere, but I 
am new to Batik (and SVG for that matter) and haven't found it.

I thought the answer would be something like this:

    SAXSVGDocumentFactory fact = new SAXSVGDocumentFactory("foobar");
    Document document = fact.createDocument("C:/SVGExamples/Foo.svg");

The problem is, how do I get a legal value for foobar? I can't find any
instantiatable 
class to use there.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jim Goodwin