Likely the requirement to be handled by a non-XML parser and to ease adoption. In practice the namespace will always be copied from somewhere because no one eve

Likely the requirement to be handled by a non-XML parser and to ease adoption. In practice the namespace will always be copied from somewhere because no one ever types it from memory. Still, IMHO inline SVG is a horrible mess as it is parsed as sort-of XML, has its own weird rules, doesn't show up as written in the DOM Explorer, and breaks on completely strange "errors" like not naming the XLink namespace prefix "xlink". Can I still wish for XHTML?