Comment 3 for bug 170921

I agree with Bulia that the svg namespace is the least worst
place for flowRoot to be. The main purpose of namespaces
is to prevent tags invented by disparate teams from
conflicting when they are in the same document. Since
flowRoot was designated by the w3c SVG working group,
they know of it and understand that it would be a bad idea to
create a future tag with the same name but different
semantics. Furthermore, we know approximately what
flowtext is going to look like in the future due to the SVG Tiny
work, and it doesn't conflict with our use of flowRoot. Finally,
Batik (the closest thing there is to an official w3c SVG
viewer) supports svg:flowRoot since 1.6.

However, your suggestion to use switch sounds like a good
idea, so I would propose that this bug is moved onto the
feature tracker and renamed.