Is the SVG onload event called too early?

I have code like this using jQuery-svg

function replaceRaster(){
    $('#png').remove()
    a = $('#graphic')
    b = a.svg(a)
    a.load('IDC_Energy.svg',
         {onLoad:bind} )
   svg = document.getElementById("graphic").children[0]
   console.log(svg)
   svg.addEventListener('load', bind)
}

An event handler bindfires before jQuery-svg-dom can select elements in SVG data. My code should look at SVG and assign different classes and attach listeners to different elements, but it cannot find them. If I call bindin the console after loading, it can find all SVG elements.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there any other way to detect when an SVG DOM is available? I thought about using a timer, but it really is hacked, especially considering that my SVG files can be several megabytes in size.