diff --git a/modules/angular2/src/compiler/schema/dom_element_schema_registry.ts b/modules/angular2/src/compiler/schema/dom_element_schema_registry.ts
index 84a9230fe3..07e5ad9c90 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/src/compiler/schema/dom_element_schema_registry.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/src/compiler/schema/dom_element_schema_registry.ts
@@ -6,8 +6,11 @@ import {splitNsName} from 'angular2/src/compiler/html_tags';
 
 import {ElementSchemaRegistry} from './element_schema_registry';
 
-const NAMESPACE_URIS =
-    CONST_EXPR({'xlink': 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink', 'svg': 'http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'});
+const NAMESPACE_URIS = CONST_EXPR({
+  'xlink': 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink',
+  'svg': 'http://www.w3.org/2000/svg',
+  'xhtml': 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'
+});
 
 @Injectable()
 export class DomElementSchemaRegistry extends ElementSchemaRegistry {
diff --git a/modules/angular2/src/platform/dom/dom_renderer.ts b/modules/angular2/src/platform/dom/dom_renderer.ts
index d64ce1094e..b37be36443 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/src/platform/dom/dom_renderer.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/src/platform/dom/dom_renderer.ts
@@ -28,8 +28,11 @@ import {ViewEncapsulation} from 'angular2/src/core/metadata';
 import {DOM} from 'angular2/src/platform/dom/dom_adapter';
 import {camelCaseToDashCase} from './util';
 
-const NAMESPACE_URIS =
-    CONST_EXPR({'xlink': 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink', 'svg': 'http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'});
+const NAMESPACE_URIS = CONST_EXPR({
+  'xlink': 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink',
+  'svg': 'http://www.w3.org/2000/svg',
+  'xhtml': 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'
+});
 const TEMPLATE_COMMENT_TEXT = 'template bindings={}';
 var TEMPLATE_BINDINGS_EXP = /^template bindings=(.*)$/g;
 
diff --git a/modules/angular2/test/core/linker/integration_spec.ts b/modules/angular2/test/core/linker/integration_spec.ts
index 8318aea3a5..d77bc9d1a6 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/test/core/linker/integration_spec.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/test/core/linker/integration_spec.ts
@@ -1859,6 +1859,30 @@ function declareTests() {
                  });
            }));
 
+        it('should support foreignObjects',
+           inject([TestComponentBuilder, AsyncTestCompleter], (tcb: TestComponentBuilder,
+                                                               async) => {
+             tcb.overrideView(
+                    MyComp, new ViewMetadata({
+                      template:
+                          '<svg><foreignObject><xhtml:div><p>Test</p></xhtml:div></foreignObject></svg>'
+                    }))
+                 .createAsync(MyComp)
+                 .then((fixture) => {
+                   var el = fixture.debugElement.nativeElement;
+                   var svg = DOM.childNodes(el)[0];
+                   var foreignObject = DOM.childNodes(svg)[0];
+                   var p = DOM.childNodes(foreignObject)[0];
+                   expect(DOM.getProperty(<Element>svg, 'namespaceURI'))
+                       .toEqual('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg');
+                   expect(DOM.getProperty(<Element>foreignObject, 'namespaceURI'))
+                       .toEqual('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg');
+                   expect(DOM.getProperty(<Element>p, 'namespaceURI'))
+                       .toEqual('http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml');
+
+                   async.done();
+                 });
+           }));
       });
 
       describe('attributes', () => {