Henri Sivonen wrote:
I think putting subtrees rooted at <svg> or <math> in the SVG and MathML namespaces respectively (and allowing /> to close elements while the tokenizer is looking at such a subtree) would be more forward-compatible with future SVG and MathML revisions. (Subtrees rooted at children of SVG <foreignObject> and MathML <annotation-xml> would be put in the XHTML namespace.)
Another important consideration: SVG and MathML are more likely to be produced by some form of tool than by direct editing in a text editor. (No that you can't do that, of course; but BBEdit's no substitute for Illustrator.) These tools already exist, and they already use the empty-element tag syntax and namespace attributes. I doubt these tools would like to change to support two different serialization formats.
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