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----- Original Message ----- From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@n...> To: <marting@d...> Cc: <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 7:30 PM Subject: Re: Namespace: what's the correct usage? > > > I wouldn't 'complicate it with different namespaces for each element in the > > structure'. I would qualify the top-level element ( person ) and not qualify > > the children. > > but that means that the children and the top level element are > potentially in different namespaces. One is in the namespace bound to > the prefix, the children are in the default namespace. When I say 'unqualified' I mean just that. i.e. In no namespace. I never use default namespace decls. They're evil. To 'protect' myself I'd put xmlns='' on the qualified element. > > It may be that you have xmlns="xxx" and xmlns:prefix="xxx" so these are > the same namespace, but in that case it would seem clearer to either > prefix all of them or none. I have the top-level element qualified and children unqualified. Exactly what the mapping is between namespace names and prefixes is a serialization detail. > > You could add the neamespace declarations automatically in a DTD or > schema but the namespace REC explicitly warns against doing that > as it means that the namespace of the elements depends on the processor > finding and reading the DTD. I think it's safe to assume I'll get the namespace decls right. Martin
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