diff --git a/src/compiler/compile/render_dom/wrappers/Element/Attribute.ts b/src/compiler/compile/render_dom/wrappers/Element/Attribute.ts
index 258376c375..e470a1e0d8 100644
--- a/src/compiler/compile/render_dom/wrappers/Element/Attribute.ts
+++ b/src/compiler/compile/render_dom/wrappers/Element/Attribute.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import Expression from '../../../nodes/shared/Expression';
 import Text from '../../../nodes/Text';
 import handle_select_value_binding from './handle_select_value_binding';
 import { Identifier, Node } from 'estree';
+import { namespaces, valid_namespaces } from '../../../../utils/namespaces';
 
 export class BaseAttributeWrapper {
 	node: Attribute;
@@ -65,17 +66,33 @@ export default class AttributeWrapper extends BaseAttributeWrapper {
 				handle_select_value_binding(this, node.dependencies);
 			}
 		}
+		
+		const namespace = this.parent.node.namespace;
+		// some processing only applies to html namespace (and not MathML, SVG, or Svelte Native etc)
+		if (namespace && namespace != 'html' && namespace != namespaces.html) {
+			// attributes outside of the html namespaced may be case sensitive
+			// namespaces for which we don't have case corrections, are left in their original case (required for svelte-native)
+			this.name = (valid_namespaces.indexOf(namespace) >= 0) ? fix_attribute_casing(this.node.name) : this.node.name;
+			this.is_indirectly_bound_value = false;
+			this.metadata = null;
+			this.property_name = null;
+			this.is_select_value_attribute = false;
+			this.is_input_value = false;
+		} else {
+			this.name = fix_attribute_casing(this.node.name);
+			this.metadata = this.get_metadata();
+			this.is_indirectly_bound_value = is_indirectly_bound_value(this);
+			this.property_name = this.is_indirectly_bound_value
+				? '__value'
+				: this.metadata && this.metadata.property_name;
+
+			this.is_select_value_attribute = this.name === 'value' && this.parent.node.name === 'select';
+			this.is_input_value = this.name === 'value' && this.parent.node.name === 'input';
+		}
 
-		this.name = fix_attribute_casing(this.node.name);
-		this.metadata = this.get_metadata();
-		this.is_indirectly_bound_value = is_indirectly_bound_value(this);
-		this.property_name = this.is_indirectly_bound_value
-			? '__value'
-			: this.metadata && this.metadata.property_name;
 		this.is_src = this.name === 'src'; // TODO retire this exception in favour of https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/3750
-		this.is_select_value_attribute = this.name === 'value' && this.parent.node.name === 'select';
-		this.is_input_value = this.name === 'value' && this.parent.node.name === 'input';
 		this.should_cache = should_cache(this);
+
 	}
 
 	render(block: Block) {
diff --git a/test/runtime/samples/attribute-casing-unknown-namespace/_config.js b/test/runtime/samples/attribute-casing-unknown-namespace/_config.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..45ee778a49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/runtime/samples/attribute-casing-unknown-namespace/_config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+// Test support for unknown namespaces preserving attribute case (eg svelte-native).
+
+export default {
+	html: `
+		<page xmlns="tns" horizontalAlignment="center">
+			<button textWrap="true" text="button">
+		</page>
+	`,
+	options: {
+		hydrate: false, // Hydrations currently doesn't work, the case sensitivity is only handled for svg elements.
+	},
+
+	test({ assert, target }) {
+		const attr = sel => target.querySelector(sel).attributes[0].name;
+		assert.equal(attr('page'), "horizontalAlignment");
+		assert.equal(attr('button'), "textWrap")
+	}
+};
diff --git a/test/runtime/samples/attribute-casing-unknown-namespace/main.svelte b/test/runtime/samples/attribute-casing-unknown-namespace/main.svelte
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9bc97600fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/runtime/samples/attribute-casing-unknown-namespace/main.svelte
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<page horizontalAlignment="center" xmlns="tns">
+	<button textWrap="true" text="button">
+</page>
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