[whatwg] markup as authored in practice

[Elliotte Harold]

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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