Should SVG namespace property be "namespace"

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Should SVG namespace property be "namespace"

rupertlssmith opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

Rupert Smith commented 7 years ago

The SVG namespace is defined as:

svgNamespace : Attribute msg
svgNamespace =
VirtualDom.property "namespace" (Json.string "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")

Should the "namespace" property actually be "xmlns"? As described here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/SVG/Namespaces_Crash_Course

Duane Johnson · Answer 1 · Tue Apr 11 2017 01:42:10 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Interesting! I don't know where the original namespace property comes from. That's copied from the elm-lang/svg package. I'm surprised that it would be wrong. I agree though that based on the spec (and if I understand the intent of svgNamespace) it seems like xmlns is preferred. It's also strange to me that each node is using the svgNamespace attribute... that seems unnecessary (since namespaces, once declared, are used as the default for all inner scope elements).