[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 #3 from Dirk Schulze <krit at webkit.org>  2014-07-13 22:24:19 PST ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (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.

Does the HTML parser handle renaming of ns shorthands?

Instead of 
    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"

this
    xmlns:l="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" and l:href

This was another pattern we saw.

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