I would also prefer to enable this to work without any extra annotation. So much of the rest of how SVG/MathML are handled in HTML is seamless by design.
From: ad...@google.com [mailto:ad...@google.com] On Behalf Of Adam Klein Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 11:17 AM To: Benjamin Lesh Cc: WebApps WG Subject: Re: template namespace attribute proposal On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Benjamin Lesh <bl...@netflix.com<mailto:bl...@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
