Re: [XHR] SVG WG LC comments

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 
> I wonder if this can be fixed in the HTML5 spec to say that when 
> serializing a whole document, no xmlns="" attribute needs to be 
> inserted.

We still somewhat want them in that case too, in case the string is then 
used to assign into an elemnet in another document:

   var s = doc.documentElement.innerHTML;
   ...
   someOtherElement.innerHTML = s;

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