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SVG documents should always have a new stacking context when embedded in other documents (like inline SVG). The same should occur for embedded documents on the foreignObject element.
This doesn't seem like a Transforms issue.
This probably should be fixed in CSS Positioned Layout: <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-positioning/#z-index>.