diff --git a/packages/babel-helper-builder-react-jsx/src/index.js b/packages/babel-helper-builder-react-jsx/src/index.js
index fa220da478..9e612e3259 100644
--- a/packages/babel-helper-builder-react-jsx/src/index.js
+++ b/packages/babel-helper-builder-react-jsx/src/index.js
@@ -14,11 +14,13 @@ export default function(opts) {
   const visitor = {};
 
   visitor.JSXNamespacedName = function(path) {
-    throw path.buildCodeFrameError(
-      "Namespace tags are not supported. ReactJSX is not XML.",
-    );
+    if (opts.throwIfNamespace) {
+      throw path.buildCodeFrameError(
+        `Namespace tags are not supported by default. React's JSX doesn't support namespace tags. \
+You can turn on the 'throwIfNamespace' flag to bypass this warning.`,
+      );
+    }
   };
-
   visitor.JSXElement = {
     exit(path, file) {
       const callExpr = buildElementCall(path, file);
@@ -44,6 +46,12 @@ export default function(opts) {
         convertJSXIdentifier(node.object, node),
         convertJSXIdentifier(node.property, node),
       );
+    } else if (t.isJSXNamespacedName(node)) {
+      /**
+       * If there is flag "throwIfNamespace"
+       * print XMLNamespace like string literal
+       */
+      return t.stringLiteral(`${node.namespace.name}:${node.name.name}`);
     }
 
     return node;
diff --git a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/README.md b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/README.md
index eda92bbcdf..b8cd2698ed 100644
--- a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/README.md
+++ b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/README.md
@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ With options:
 {
   "plugins": [
     ["@babel/transform-react-jsx", {
-      "pragma": "dom" // default pragma is React.createElement
+      "pragma": "dom", // default pragma is React.createElement
+      "throwIfNamespace": false // defaults to true
     }]
   ]
 }
@@ -113,3 +114,13 @@ Note that the `@jsx React.DOM` pragma has been deprecated as of React v0.12
 `boolean`, defaults to `false`.
 
 When spreading props, use `Object.assign` directly instead of Babel's extend helper.
+
+### `throwIfNamespace`
+
+`boolean`, defaults to `true`.
+
+Toggles whether or not to throw an error if a XML namespaced tag name is used. For example:
+
+    <f:image />
+
+Though the JSX spec allows this, it is disabled by default since React's JSX does not currently have support for it.
diff --git a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/src/index.js b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/src/index.js
index ef40a3f5c7..c3beb62cdd 100644
--- a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/src/index.js
+++ b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/src/index.js
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ import helper from "@babel/helper-builder-react-jsx";
 
 export default function({ types: t }, options) {
   const pragma = options.pragma || "React.createElement";
+  const throwIfNamespace =
+    options.throwIfNamespace === undefined ? true : !!options.throwIfNamespace;
 
   const JSX_ANNOTATION_REGEX = /\*?\s*@jsx\s+([^\s]+)/;
 
@@ -20,6 +22,8 @@ export default function({ types: t }, options) {
     post(state, pass) {
       state.callee = pass.get("jsxIdentifier")();
     },
+
+    throwIfNamespace,
   });
 
   visitor.Program = function(path, state) {
diff --git a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-disallow-xml-namespacing/options.json b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-disallow-xml-namespacing/options.json
index 84921377cb..8285c733a0 100644
--- a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-disallow-xml-namespacing/options.json
+++ b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-disallow-xml-namespacing/options.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  "throws": "Namespace tags are not supported. ReactJSX is not XML."
+  "throws": "Namespace tags are not supported by default. React's JSX doesn't support namespace tags. You can turn on the 'throwIfNamespace' flag to bypass this warning."
 }
diff --git a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-support-xml-namespaces-if-flag/actual.js b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-support-xml-namespaces-if-flag/actual.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4888b2b705
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-support-xml-namespaces-if-flag/actual.js
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<f:image />;
diff --git a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-support-xml-namespaces-if-flag/expected.js b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-support-xml-namespaces-if-flag/expected.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..84038ebb97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-support-xml-namespaces-if-flag/expected.js
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+h("f:image", null);
diff --git a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-support-xml-namespaces-if-flag/options.json b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-support-xml-namespaces-if-flag/options.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..644fc6f6da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-support-xml-namespaces-if-flag/options.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "plugins": [
+    [
+      "transform-react-jsx",
+      {
+        "pragma": "h",
+        "throwIfNamespace": false
+      }
+    ]
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-throw-error-namespaces-if-not-flag/actual.js b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-throw-error-namespaces-if-not-flag/actual.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4888b2b705
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-throw-error-namespaces-if-not-flag/actual.js
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<f:image />;
diff --git a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-throw-error-namespaces-if-not-flag/options.json b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-throw-error-namespaces-if-not-flag/options.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..261ae77277
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-throw-error-namespaces-if-not-flag/options.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  "plugins": [
+    [
+      "transform-react-jsx",
+      {
+        "pragma": "h",
+        "throwIfNamespace": true
+      }
+    ]
+  ],
+  "throws": "Namespace tags are not supported by default. React's JSX doesn't support namespace tags. You can turn on the 'throwIfNamespace' flag to bypass this warning."
+}
diff --git a/packages/babel-types/src/definitions/core.js b/packages/babel-types/src/definitions/core.js
index 004e21fb40..4569a367e7 100644
--- a/packages/babel-types/src/definitions/core.js
+++ b/packages/babel-types/src/definitions/core.js
@@ -129,7 +129,9 @@ defineType("CallExpression", {
     arguments: {
       validate: chain(
         assertValueType("array"),
-        assertEach(assertNodeType("Expression", "SpreadElement")),
+        assertEach(
+          assertNodeType("Expression", "SpreadElement", "JSXNamespacedName"),
+        ),
       ),
     },
     optional: {