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In order to ease authoring, and to converge with HTML syntax, we should examine the possibility of allowing a null-namespace 'href' attribute on <a>, <use>, <image> and other elements. Another option is to allow the use of 'xlink:href' without an explicit XLink namespace declaration. Note that both approaches do have drawbacks as well as advantages... see attached links.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2007Oct/0059.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2007Oct/0071.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2007Oct/0073.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2007Oct/0074.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2007Oct/0075.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2007Oct/0076.html