XMLNS in Inkscape and other editors

Shelley took up the problem that SVG editors are known to place 
namespaces in their code, thus automatically being invalid - bug 7510 
[1].

However, online services such as Gooogle Sites [2] (formerly known as 
Jotspot [3]) do the same, directly in the HTML (XHTML served as 
text/HTML). E.g. from the Chromium homepage[4]:

<body xmlns="http://www.google.com/ns/jotspot" id="body" class=" en">

FWIW, when validating that page according to its doctype, there were 89 
errors and 29 warnings[5]. Validating as HTML5 there were only 40 [6] 
or 44 [7] errors. If namespaces were permitted, there would be fewer. 

[1] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7510
[2] http://sites.google.com/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jotspot#History
[4] http://www.chromium.org/
[5] http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chromium.org
[6] 
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chromium.org&doctype=HTML5
[7] 
http://validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chromium.org%2F&parser=html5&laxtype=yes
-- 
leif halvard silli

Received on Friday, 20 November 2009 13:55:26 UTC