Careful now. SVG uses a lot of XML features that goes beyond "basic XML parsing".
To define a subset of SVG doesn't imply that simplifying the XML part is going to be easy.
To define a subset of SVG doesn't imply that simplifying the XML part is going to be easy.
Could you name the feature to which you are referring specifically?
> XML part is going to be easy.
What part of parsing XML is hard? My premise is that all XML parsing is easy.