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This issue is the same as #1483 - I think you're resubmitted this as a bug because the beta 0.2 release doesn't fix the issue as you had hoped.

In #1483 I state:

The HTML5 specification doesn't support the use of such prefixes, instead the SVG namespace should be declared as the default namespace for top level SVG elements embedded within HTML.

Saxon-CE has now been (for the next release) amended to conform to this spec when writing to the HTML or XHTML DOM - thus fixing the Opera issue at the same time.

To be more specific on this - Saxon-CE was fixed to conform to the XSLT specification so that if you use no prefix for the SVG namespace elements in your XSLT then this is reflected in what is written to the DOM.

I suspect the difficulty is because you'd like to use the svg prefix in literal result elements in your XSLT but Opera insists on you using no prefix if you want to preserve the case of names. If this is the case, you might be able to use the xsl:namespace-alias instruction to get to a solution that is more workable. Or, perhaps - for the future - Saxon-CE should have an xsl:output method setting (html5?) that detects SVG namespaced elements and always ensures they have no prefix when written to the DOM?

Because the JavaScript API allows Saxon-CE to be used in cases where the output of a transform is XML but not HTML, we have to be a bit more careful with how nodes are written to the DOM using the default method.