[bawolff]

> I'm building a sort of compiler for it with full support for Namespaces, Schema, XLinks and all of that, boring stuff that needs to be done, I don't understand why this needs to be your problem though

Well if you just do the generic version uncritically, you end up with all sorts of security vulnerabilities. Things like xml external entities, xinclude have causes quite a few security issues over the years when processing svgs.