>On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 20:01, bulia byak wrote:
>> Yes, and I'm thinking about _why_ this may be needed, and can only
>> think of the two reasons above.
>
>IMO, the most fundamental (if not most common) reason is to yield an SVG
>document which will validate against the SVG DTD.
>
>Having elements in any non-SVG namespaces would (afaiK) prevent that.
>
>Of course, I'm not really sure most folks care about DTDs much anymore,
>given they don't play well with namespaces in general.
>
>-mental
I care. In my special purpose inkscape is not only a drawing program but a (_THE_) svg-editor.
 
Adib.