SVG Manipulation Problems connected to Doctype declara

Greetings,

I was hoping that someone might clarify if there was ever a resolution to an
earlier problem that was mentioned about SVG (posted by David Pawson on
Friday March 3, 2000 under the title "doctype decl problem"). My goal is to
strip out the "path" elements out of an SVG document. THe SVG was generated
using Adobe Illustrator so I have to assume that it's correct.

The "DOCTYPE" declaration at the beginning of the SVG seems to be the
culprit of my problem. There is a parsing problem of some sort as it results
in a more or less blank SVG document. If I remove the line so it becomes a
generic xml docment, then the XSLT produces the correct results.
Unfortunately, I have too many svg documents to make hand editing each one
practical.

I am using "Instant Saxon" to do my xslt processing.

The following is an example of my svg and of the XSLT that I've written to
do just that:

airport.svg:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 10, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version:
3.0.0 Build 76)  -->
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd" [-->
	<!ENTITY ns_flows "http://ns.adobe.com/Flows/1.0/">
	<!ENTITY ns_svg "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
	<!ENTITY ns_xlink "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
]>
<svg xmlns="&ns_svg;" xmlns:xlink="&ns_xlink;"
xmlns:a="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeSVGViewerExtensions/3.0/" width="68.08203"
height="67.95703" viewBox="0 0 68.08203 67.95703"
style="overflow:visible;enable-background:new 0 0 68.08203 67.95703"
xml:space="preserve">
	<g id="Layer_1">
		<g id="Layer_1_1_">
			<g>
				<path id="_x0035_46492912"
style="fill:none;stroke:#A67D3B;stroke-linejoin:round;" d="M34.04102,0.5

c18.52246,0,33.54102,14.98877,33.54102,33.47852c0,18.49121-15.01855,33.47852
-33.54102,33.47852S0.5,52.46973,0.5,33.97852
					C0.5,15.48877,15.51855,0.5,34.04102,0.5"/>
				<path id="_x0035_46493176"
style="fill:none;stroke:#A67D3B;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;"
d="

M29.82324,12.92285v12.6333L8.72705,42.39844h21.09619v8.4248l-8.43799,6.31738
h25.31104l-8.4375-6.31738v-8.4248h21.09668
					L38.25879,25.55615v-12.6333"/>
				<g>
					<path id="_x0033_74936400"
style="fill:none;stroke:#FFFFFF;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;"
d="

M38.25879,12.92285c0-2.31592-1.89746-4.21143-4.21777-4.21143c-2.31982,0-4.21
777,1.89551-4.21777,4.21143"/>
					<path id="_x0033_75131424"
style="fill:none;stroke:#A67D3B;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;"
d="

M38.25879,12.92285c0-2.31592-1.89746-4.21143-4.21777-4.21143c-2.31982,0-4.21
777,1.89551-4.21777,4.21143"/>
				</g>
			</g>
		</g>
	</g>
</svg>
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strip.xsl
--------------------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
	<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
	<xsl:template match="/">
		<xsl:apply-templates/>
	</xsl:template>
		<xsl:template match="svg">
		<svg><xsl:apply-templates/></svg>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="g">
	<xsl:apply-templates/>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="path">
		<path><xsl:copy-of select="node()|@style|@d"/></path>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="defs"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jeremy E. Denton
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