[Bug 10965] Refer to SVG Integration spec for element and attribute names

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10965

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2010-10-07 21:28:53 UTC ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale:

This was discussed before, and the conclusion I had drawn at the time was that
it was better for implementors to keep the HTML spec up to date than to refer
to another spec that was kept up to date. There is a huge advantage to having
all of the HTML parsing rules defined in one place: it makes implementing the
parser simply an exercise of walking down the spec and implementing it. For the
same reason, the HTML spec integrates the MathML named character references
rather than deferring to them elsewhere.

However, I would be happy to make the HTML spec be automatically generated from
a file that lists the mapping. This is what we do for the aforementioned MathML
named character references. The simplest thing to do there would be to have a
text file somewhere that is just a list of attribute names, one to a line, in
their canonical SVG case. I can then write a trivial script to turn that into
the table in the spec. Given how often the HTML spec is updated, this would
have a very fast turn-around time, and would not need any formal interaction to
keep the list up to date.

If you would like to do that, please reopen the bug and provide the URL to such
a file.

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Received on Thursday, 7 October 2010 21:28:55 UTC