InDesign CS3: setting element id's for SVG export

Hi!
I created some documents in InDesign which I exported to an SVG File. I wan't to do some DOM manipulation in the SVG file now. Is there a way to set an id to a group of elements which is exported as an group in the SVG file? Or can I export the name of a layer as an attribute or class or whatever is allowed in SVG. So I can easily search for all elements in the xml tree which have been on a specific layer in the inDesign file?
regards
marcus

Have you tried the usual fixes
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/526990
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/526991

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