Batch-process SVGs to remove paths

I have well over a hundred SVG files, from each of which I need to remove several path elements. The paths are named the same in all of the files, and I know SVG is XML-based, so I would think it should be fairly simple (for some values of simple). I've searched the Net, but I can't find anything already existing that's designed with this purpose in mind, and Inkscape doesn't support macros/batch jobs. I'm not terribly familiar with XML, but if anyone can even point me in the right direction, that would be a start.
Full disclosure: the paths in these SVGs are intended to be watermarks, from a trial version of some conversion software, which I found after hours of trying to find a way to view DWF files on Linux. If you think this is cheating, just don't help me.

Maybe a simple sed command could do your work.
sed 's/old/new/g' inputFile > outputFile
new is a regular expression.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed
Ok, thats not XML based.
You could try this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xslt
Last edited by Perry3D (2009-08-14 08:38:32)

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