Re: template namespace attribute proposal

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Benjamin Lesh <blesh@netflix.com> wrote:

> I'd like to propose that the <template> tag have a namespace="" attribute
> that allows the user to specify namespaces such as "
> http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", so that the document fragment that comes
> from `.content` is created properly.
>
> e.g.:
>
> <template id="my-svg-template" namespace="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg>
>   <circle cx="10" cy="10" cr="10"/>
> </template>
>

For clarity, is this significantly different from the below (which works
today)?

<template id="tmpl">
  <svg>
    <circle .../>
  </svg>
</template>

Clearly there's an extra step here, in that accessing the SVG elements
requires hopping into firstElementChild, but adding new namespace-related
features seems unfortunate.

- Adam