A long, long time ago, Macromedia Freehand came with a plugin that exported your Freehand document to HTML.  Basically, it turned all of the non-text graphics into a series of JPG's and the text was left as is in an HTML document.

Here are two possible options that could make the use of SVG on the web less painful...

1)An Inkscape effect (or HTML export functionality) that generates PNG's (or separate SVG's) of all non-text graphics, then generates an HTML document that displays the graphics along with the original text.

2)An SVG-to-HTML program/script that creates separate SVG's for each non-text object in the original SVG document, then generates an HTML document that displays the new SVG graphics along with the original text.

Personally, I would love to see Inkscape have the ability to export the document to a set of documents (HTML and associated PNG's and TXT's)  that can be displayed as a web page.  I can't help with that option, but I could try my hand at creating option 2 in Java.  I haven't used my Java skills for over 2 years, so things will probably go a little slowly.  If anybody has any ideas, suggestions or comments about such a program, please feel free to let me know.  Heck... I might be taking the long way around for all I know.  Please stop me if I'm heading in the wrong direction!

- Tony