• From: "Clark C. Evans" <cce@c...>
• To: Al Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 02:53:19 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Al Snell wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong - there is absolutely no semantic 
> significance in the choice of namespace prefix, right?
> 
> <foo:hello xmlns:foo="asdf" />
> 
> ...identical to...
> 
> <bar:hello xmlns:bar="asdf" />
> 
> ...my encoding will discard the prefixes foo and bar; will this in any way
> ever matter, even slightly?

Read the canonical XML specification... it is illuminating in this regard.

Clark

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