Re: [svgwg] Why does xmlns use http not https? (#738)

Thanks for filing the issue.

XML namespace URLs are really opaque identifiers. The fact that some namespace URLs under w3.org resolve to a page describing them is a convenience. It wouldn't be compatible to change these URLs now.

(You might be able to argue for DTD URLs to be updated, since in some XML parsers, those URLs will actually be fetched. But in practice, SVG User Agents don't operate their XML parsers in validating mode, and so never need to use that URL.)

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