Re: Making <template> play nice with XML and tags-and-text

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Adam Klein <adamk@chromium.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Inspired by a conversation with hsivonen in #whatwg, I spend some time
> >>> thinking about how we would design <template> for an XML world.  One
> idea I
> >>> had was to put the elements inside the template into a namespace other
> than
> >>> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml.
>
> On the face of things, this seems a lot less scary than the wormhole
> model. I think this merits further exploration! Thank you!
>
>
This proposal seems worse than wormhole parsing because the interface of
the template nodes is not HTMLElement, unless we're assuming it's a
different but identical namespace?

For instance it's super weird if <img src="x"> is missing the .src property
because it's not in the HTML namespace, but suddenly when it's cloned for
instantiation it's back in the HTML namespace and has the src property.

- E