mdIconService from material-angularjs modified for support <use> tag on inline SVG sprites. (angular/material/src/components/icon/iconService.js)

iconService(partial).js

/**
 *    Loads the reference of SVG element from icon set sprite using inline svg reference
 */
function Icon(el, config) {
    if (el.tagName != 'svg') {
        el = angular.element('<svg><use xlink:href="' + config.url + '#' + el.id + '"/></svg>')[0];
    }

    // Inject the namespace if not available...
    if (!el.getAttribute('xmlns')) {
        el.setAttribute('xmlns', "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg");
    }

    this.element = el;
    this.config = config;
    this.prepare();
}