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Re: Namespace Comments (and dtd encoding)

• From: James Clark <jjc@j...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 17:26:50 +0700

MURATA Makoto wrote:

> Because we cannot replace
> 
> <foo:A xmlns:foo="[first URI]" xmlns:bar="[second URI]" >
>     <foo:B />
>     <foo:C />
>     <bar:D />
> </foo:A>
> 
> with something like
> 
> <foo:A xmlns:foo="[first URI]" xmlns:bar="[second URI]" >
>     <:B />
>     <:C />
>     <bar:D />
> </foo:A>
> 
> This is what I meant by inheritance of prefixes, and it does not exist
> in the current working draft.

Given that I can replace your example with

<A xmlns="[first URI]" xmlns:bar="[second URI]" >
     <B />
     <C />
     <bar:D />
</A>

I'm having a hard time understanding why I would want the sort of prefix
inheritance you are talking about.

James

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