[Bug 25098] Clarifications on "legacy reasons" for namespace URI

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25098

Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Sebastian Müller from comment #2)
> Re: barely used namespaced attributes in SVG:
> 
> I doubt that the "image" element is barely used in SVG and it requires the
> xlink namespace for the reference to the image.
> The same holds true for the "use" element. 
> 
> At least one of those two is part of every non-trivial SVG file I have seen
> for the past years. 
> Also I don't see that they are "looking into replacements" for these - at
> least the w3c SVG 2.0 working draft still uses these namespaced attributes...

SVG2 is planning on dropping all namespaced attributes.  The change hasn't been
made yet, but it's been discussed and planned for some time.

(Technically, SVG2 will still accept them, but will also accept attributes in
the null namespace, with a consistent rule for how to disambiguate when both
are specified.)

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