Is there an equivalent of spriting for SVG images in web pages?

Question

SVG images aren’t bitmaps, so (unless I’m missing something) you can’t do spriting like you can with other images files used on web pages (see http://www.alistapart.com/articles

Answer 1

SVG isn't even technically supported by W3C standards. It won't even work in IE without a plugin. Maybe you'll find some obscure Mozilla plugin that lets you do that but as far as I know your code won't validate.