Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: XML Namespaces difficulty

Author:	Fredrik Lundh
Posted:	8/30/2000; 10:06:38 AM
Topic:	cam?
Msg #:	20547 (In response to 20535)
Prev/Next:	20546 / 20548

here's one example, from WebDAV (RFC 2518):

23.4.2 Meaning of Qualified Names

WebDAV compliant XML processors MUST interpret a qualified name as a URI constructed by appending the LocalPart to the namespace name URI.

followed by the following examples, which are all semantically identical:

   
      Johnny Updraft
   
   



   
      Johnny Updraft
   
   



   
      Johnny Updraft
   
   

I mailed James Clark about this one, and he told me that the namespace specification doesn't really care -- it's all up to the application to figure out how to interpret the (namespaceURI, localname) combo.

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