[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 117443] Consider using HTML parser to parse SVG

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117443





--- Comment #2 from Philip Rogers <pdr at google.com>  2014-07-13 11:43:35 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> The experiment kind of failed.
> 
> HTML parser does not allow entities. There are thousands of SVGs out there which use custom XML entities. (Most exported by Illustrator :(.)
> 
> Either the HTML parser allows a legacy mode with entities or we can not proceed with this idea.

I discussed this with Kouhei and we don't think a basic level of xml entity support would be too hard to implement in the html parser.

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