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Bug 22468 - "Elements in other namespaces whose interface is not defined by that namespace's specification must use the interface Element." is wrong for at least SVG. http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-do [...]
Summary: "Elements in other namespaces whose interface is not defined by that namespac...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-06-25 22:07 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-07-02 23:12 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-06-25 22:07:45 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tree-construction.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#creating-and-inserting-nodes
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#creating-and-inserting-nodes
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
"Elements in other namespaces whose interface is not defined by that
namespace's specification must use the interface Element." is wrong for at
least SVG. http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/2369
foobar is SVGElement in presto/blink/gecko

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Comment 1 Peter Occil 2013-06-25 23:25:56 UTC 
Actually it's not wrong for SVG.  Here's where the SVG namespace is defined:

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/intro.html#NamespaceAndDTDIdentifiers

And the same specification defines the SVGElement interface:

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/types.html#InterfaceSVGElement