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At 06:41 PM 14/05/01 +0200, Guillermo J. HOYOS RIVERA wrote: > In an example XML page I found a reference like the next: > ><article xmlns="http://www.xml.com/namespaces/first-x" >xmlns:html="any-old-bollocks"> Sigh. I wrote that, and since it's (partially, and deliberately) wrong, I should explain. First, this declaration says that any element which doesn't have a prefix is in the namespace whose name is the string http://www.xml.com/namespaces/first-x Second, it says that any element or attribute that has the prefix "html:" is in the namespace whose name is the string any-old-bollocks Since, in the rest of the example, the "html:" prefix is applied to elements like <html:h1> and <html:a> which are from HTML, this suggests that the above is a reasonable namespace name for HTML. This is wrong. The question of what a good namespace name for HTML is, in the general case, is a tricky one: see http://www.rddl.org/natures/ The reason why the example uses this silly namespace name is to demonstrate a bug in Internet Explorer 5.0's XML support (I have no idea if it's still there) where the software treated elements as html based on the "html:" prefix rather than the actual namespace in use. -Tim
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