Extracting common shapes from SVG documents

Hi ,

I am working on an application , which uses SVG extensively as icons as well as background images . We are planning to provide an option for mass editing of the icons.

Is there any way i can extract common elements ( circles,rects.. etc )  from svg document?

any help will be appreciated .

thanks
Sujesh

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