diff --git a/src/compile/Component.ts b/src/compile/Component.ts
index bb61ff0506..2e5590c054 100644
--- a/src/compile/Component.ts
+++ b/src/compile/Component.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { walk, childKeys } from 'estree-walker';
 import { getLocator } from 'locate-character';
 import Stats from '../Stats';
 import reservedNames from '../utils/reservedNames';
-import namespaces from '../utils/namespaces';
+import { namespaces, validNamespaces } from '../utils/namespaces';
 import { removeNode } from '../utils/removeNode';
 import wrapModule from './wrapModule';
 import { createScopes, extractNames, Scope } from '../utils/annotateWithScopes';
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import flattenReference from '../utils/flattenReference';
 import addToSet from '../utils/addToSet';
 import isReference from 'is-reference';
 import TemplateScope from './nodes/shared/TemplateScope';
+import fuzzymatch from '../utils/fuzzymatch';
 
 type Meta = {
 	namespace?: string;
@@ -602,42 +603,62 @@ function process_meta(component, nodes) {
 	const meta: Meta = {};
 	const node = nodes.find(node => node.name === 'svelte:meta');
 
+	function get_value(attribute, message) {
+		const { name, value } = attribute;
+
+		if (value.length > 1 || (value[0] && value[0].type !== 'Text')) {
+			component.error(attribute, {
+				code: `invalid-${name}-attribute`,
+				message
+			});
+		}
+
+		return value[0].data;
+	}
+
 	if (node) {
 		node.attributes.forEach(attribute => {
 			if (attribute.type === 'Attribute') {
-				const { name, value } = attribute;
-
-				if (value.length > 1 || (value[0] && value[0].type !== 'Text')) {
-					component.error(attribute, {
-						code: `invalid-meta-attribute`,
-						message: `<svelte:meta> cannot have dynamic attributes`
-					});
-				}
-
-				const { data } = value[0];
+				const { name } = attribute;
 
 				switch (name) {
 					case 'tag':
-					case 'namespace':
-						if (!data) {
+						const tag = get_value(attribute, `'tag' must be a string literal`);
+
+						if (!/^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*-[a-zA-Z0-9-]+$/.test(tag)) {
 							component.error(attribute, {
-								code: `invalid-${name}-attribute`,
-								message: `<svelte:meta> ${name} attribute must have a string value`
+								code: `invalid-tag-property`,
+								message: `tag name must be two or more words joined by the '-' character`
 							});
 						}
 
-						meta[name] = data;
+						meta.tag = tag;
 						break;
 
-					case 'immutable':
-						if (data && (data !== 'true' && data !== 'false')) {
-							component.error(attribute, {
-								code: `invalid-immutable-attribute`,
-								message: `<svelte:meta> immutable attribute must be true or false`
-							});
+					case 'namespace':
+						const ns = get_value(attribute, `The 'namespace' attribute must be a string literal representing a valid namespace`);
+
+						if (validNamespaces.indexOf(ns) === -1) {
+							const match = fuzzymatch(ns, validNamespaces);
+							if (match) {
+								component.error(attribute, {
+									code: `invalid-namespace-property`,
+									message: `Invalid namespace '${ns}' (did you mean '${match}'?)`
+								});
+							} else {
+								component.error(attribute, {
+									code: `invalid-namespace-property`,
+									message: `Invalid namespace '${ns}'`
+								});
+							}
 						}
 
-						meta.immutable = data !== 'false';
+						meta.namespace = ns;
+						break;
+
+					case 'immutable':
+						meta.immutable = get_value(attribute, `immutable attribute must be true or false`) !== 'false';
+						break;
 
 					default:
 						component.error(attribute, {
@@ -668,8 +689,6 @@ function process_meta(component, nodes) {
 					message: `<svelte:meta> can only have static 'tag', 'namespace' and 'immutable' attributes, or a bind:props directive`
 				});
 			}
-
-
 		});
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/compile/nodes/Element.ts b/src/compile/nodes/Element.ts
index 7a3e9b340e..63e7173022 100644
--- a/src/compile/nodes/Element.ts
+++ b/src/compile/nodes/Element.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import Animation from './Animation';
 import Action from './Action';
 import Class from './Class';
 import Text from './Text';
-import * as namespaces from '../../utils/namespaces';
+import { namespaces } from '../../utils/namespaces';
 import mapChildren from './shared/mapChildren';
 import { dimensions } from '../../utils/patterns';
 import fuzzymatch from '../../utils/fuzzymatch';
diff --git a/src/compile/render-dom/wrappers/Element/index.ts b/src/compile/render-dom/wrappers/Element/index.ts
index 358820ce3c..d148cdfb3b 100644
--- a/src/compile/render-dom/wrappers/Element/index.ts
+++ b/src/compile/render-dom/wrappers/Element/index.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { stringify, escapeHTML, escape } from '../../../../utils/stringify';
 import TextWrapper from '../Text';
 import fixAttributeCasing from '../../../../utils/fixAttributeCasing';
 import deindent from '../../../../utils/deindent';
-import namespaces from '../../../../utils/namespaces';
+import { namespaces } from '../../../../utils/namespaces';
 import AttributeWrapper from './Attribute';
 import StyleAttributeWrapper from './StyleAttribute';
 import { dimensions } from '../../../../utils/patterns';
diff --git a/src/utils/namespaces.ts b/src/utils/namespaces.ts
index a038dfa345..bac1797b49 100644
--- a/src/utils/namespaces.ts
+++ b/src/utils/namespaces.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,4 @@ export const validNamespaces = [
 	xmlns,
 ];
 
-const namespaces: Record<string, string> = { html, mathml, svg, xlink, xml, xmlns };
-
-export default namespaces;
+export const namespaces: Record<string, string> = { html, mathml, svg, xlink, xml, xmlns };
diff --git a/test/validator/samples/namespace-invalid-unguessable/errors.json b/test/validator/samples/namespace-invalid-unguessable/errors.json
index badab0d40e..98e95676c1 100644
--- a/test/validator/samples/namespace-invalid-unguessable/errors.json
+++ b/test/validator/samples/namespace-invalid-unguessable/errors.json
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 [{
 	"code": "invalid-namespace-property",
 	"message": "Invalid namespace 'lol'",
-	"pos": 29,
+	"pos": 13,
 	"start": {
-		"line": 3,
-		"column": 2,
-		"character": 29
+		"line": 1,
+		"column": 13,
+		"character": 13
 	},
 	"end": {
-		"line": 3,
-		"column": 18,
-		"character": 45
+		"line": 1,
+		"column": 28,
+		"character": 28
 	}
 }]
diff --git a/test/validator/samples/namespace-invalid/errors.json b/test/validator/samples/namespace-invalid/errors.json
index 13a547bced..9e99fe7ab1 100644
--- a/test/validator/samples/namespace-invalid/errors.json
+++ b/test/validator/samples/namespace-invalid/errors.json
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 [{
 	"code": "invalid-namespace-property",
 	"message": "Invalid namespace 'http://www.w3.org/1999/svg' (did you mean 'http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'?)",
-	"pos": 29,
+	"pos": 13,
 	"start": {
-		"line": 3,
-		"column": 2,
-		"character": 29
+		"line": 1,
+		"column": 13,
+		"character": 13
 	},
 	"end": {
-		"line": 3,
-		"column": 41,
-		"character": 68
+		"line": 1,
+		"column": 51,
+		"character": 51
 	}
 }]
diff --git a/test/validator/samples/namespace-non-literal/errors.json b/test/validator/samples/namespace-non-literal/errors.json
index cd98748408..112e2ac73b 100644
--- a/test/validator/samples/namespace-non-literal/errors.json
+++ b/test/validator/samples/namespace-non-literal/errors.json
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 [{
 	"code": "invalid-namespace-attribute",
 	"message": "The 'namespace' attribute must be a string literal representing a valid namespace",
-	"pos": 79,
+	"pos": 13,
 	"start": {
-		"line": 5,
-		"column": 2,
-		"character": 79
+		"line": 1,
+		"column": 13,
+		"character": 13
 	},
 	"end": {
-		"line": 5,
-		"column": 11,
-		"character": 88
+		"line": 1,
+		"column": 27,
+		"character": 27
 	}
 }]
diff --git a/test/validator/samples/tag-invalid/errors.json b/test/validator/samples/tag-invalid/errors.json
index 842d98df31..6b61f76fbb 100644
--- a/test/validator/samples/tag-invalid/errors.json
+++ b/test/validator/samples/tag-invalid/errors.json
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
 	"code": "invalid-tag-property",
 	"message": "tag name must be two or more words joined by the '-' character",
 	"start": {
-		"line": 3,
-		"column": 7,
-		"character": 34
+		"line": 1,
+		"column": 13,
+		"character": 13
 	},
 	"end": {
-		"line": 3,
-		"column": 16,
-		"character": 43
+		"line": 1,
+		"column": 26,
+		"character": 26
 	},
-	"pos": 34
+	"pos": 13
 }]
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diff --git a/test/validator/samples/tag-non-string/errors.json b/test/validator/samples/tag-non-string/errors.json
index 48048f584e..54d58b2d4e 100644
--- a/test/validator/samples/tag-non-string/errors.json
+++ b/test/validator/samples/tag-non-string/errors.json
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
 	"code": "invalid-tag-attribute",
 	"message": "'tag' must be a string literal",
 	"start": {
-		"line": 3,
-		"column": 7,
-		"character": 34
+		"line": 1,
+		"column": 13,
+		"character": 13
 	},
 	"end": {
-		"line": 3,
-		"column": 9,
-		"character": 36
+		"line": 1,
+		"column": 21,
+		"character": 21
 	},
-	"pos": 34
+	"pos": 13
 }]
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