Re: SVG2: drop xmlns requirement on svg root?

• From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 09:24:06 -0700
• To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
• Cc: www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CAAWBYDBVt3FuXx7A-uXN0DEzi-g=v7jD6uajgdwxH+RP8cryDw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 4/1/14 12:14 PM, Erik Dahlström wrote:
>> Since in SVG2 we are dropping the requirement for having the xlink:xmlns
>> attribute[1], how much of a stretch would it be to also allow xmlns-less
>> <svg> root elements?
>
> So the syntax would just say <svg> but the DOM would have the node in the
> SVG namespace, right?  Presumably this would be limited to content with the
> image/svg+xml MIME type or something?
>
> The big problem here is that this sounds like it requires some sort of
> custom XML parser.... or just not using an XML parser at all for
> image/svg+xml.  An off-the-shelf XML parser wouldn't be able to produce the
> behavior that's being suggested, as far as I can see.

Ideally, we just define that SVG is parsed with the HTML parser.
Documents with an SVG root would switch into foreign-content mode
immediately.

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 1 April 2014 16:24:56 UTC