How to center SVG text vertically in IE9

Question

In order to align text vertically in SVG one has to use the dominant-baseline attribute. This has already been discussed on SO (Aligning text in SVG) and is par

Answer 1

One way to accomplish this in IE is to set the position related to the size of the font:

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Setting the "dy" attribute will shift the text up (if value is negative) or down (if value is positive). Setting the "text-anchor" attribute centers the text on the x axis just fine in IE. Although this might hackish, but so is IE's support of SVG!