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Re: Global/Local attributes

• To: seairth@s... (Seairth Jacobs)
• Subject: Re: Global/Local attributes
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:18:26 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l... (xml-dev)
• In-reply-to: <004e01c23a37$9ec9e900$6600a8c0@seairthlaptop> from "Seairth Jacobs" at Aug 02, 2002 11:16:47 AM

Seairth Jacobs scripsit:

> But it isn't just syntactic minimization.  Named namespaces and default
> namespaces are not they same.  They have different semantics.  You cannot
> necessarily use them interchangably.

Specifically why not?

Give me a document that doesn't use a default namespace, and I can map it
into an XPath-identical document that does.  The documents will also be Infoset-
identical except for the [prefix] property of namespace info items.

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