• To: Seairth Jacobs <seairth@s...>
• Subject: Re: Global/Local attributes
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 10:22:48 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
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Seairth Jacobs wrote:

> 
> 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.

Wrong.  They have different *syntax* rules.  At the end of the day, 
every element & attribute always has a local part, and may or may not 
have a namespace name - whether the namespace name was defaulted or 
explicit is typically never of concern to someone processing the data 
downstream (with the exception of editor-class applications). -Tim

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