looking to contract with someone to add meta-data to svg export

[Michael Geary]

hi folks,

i have a paying project where I could save a lot of time if i could get 
Lilypond to add some degree of information to the SVG export. My ultimate 
objective is to be able to discretely identify (all the nodes comprising) a 
given note (e.g. 3rd note in part 1, or 5th note in part 2 of measure 4) and 
any associated lyric(s). I've explored the SVG output to some extent, and right 
now my only apparent option would be to either add attributes to nodes manually 
or try to script something (i mainly do Python development). However, any svg 
parsing/scripting would have to rely on heuristics to infer information, which 
would be complicated and possibly unreliable. 

I have seen that the PDF export adds hyperlinks to entities in the document 
that correlate them back to line and char numbers in the .ly file. Even if i 
could get this data in the svg nodes, it might enable me to get the rest of 
what i want. 

I'm not a C/C++ coder, and mucking about in the Lilypond source isn't really an 
option for me, but i am in a position to hire someone to do that, and/or make a 
financial contribution to the project. Is anyone here interested in exploring 
this with me?

many thanks,

michael