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Regardless of the settings in the SVG export preferences the file for the svg export keeps the artboard. Putting the XML content through a transform causes the graphics to occupy an entire page. I have even attempted to make the artboard the size of the graphic. I still see an artboard in the export that far exceeds the borders of the graphic.