Why does SVG overload xml:space?

I recently encountered http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/text.html#WhiteSpace and  
I'm wondering why SVG overloads this (dubious) attribute intended for  
parsing to specify how rendering should happen.

This is also a problem in  
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-SVGMobile12-20060810/text.html#XMLSpaceAttribute  
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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Saturday, 30 September 2006 12:19:24 UTC