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> XML kinda requires DOM parsing

Why? Streaming/evented (e.g., SAX) parsing for XML is as old as XML.

Yes, but SVG can and will do forward references. Ergo, we have to store some kind of DOM in order to resolve them. Even if it's not in the form of the XML doc

Couldn't the proposed subset just drop forward references?

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