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Re: Namespaces

• To: Peter Finch <peter@h...>
• Subject: Re: Namespaces
• From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
• Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:52:16 +0200
• Cc: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Organization: Expway
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Peter Finch wrote:
> I was just reading the XML 1.1 Candidate recommendation and it got me
> thinking about namespaces again.
> 
> Namespaces for XML 1.1 seems to indicate that a QName can only
> contain one ":". However, XML 1.1 and 1.0 allow for multiple
> ":"'s in a Name. Is this correct or is there a conflict here?

There is a conflict. In a perfect world namespaces would be part of XML 
and not a semi-separate spec that introduces a new level of 
well-formedness. But it isn't a perfect world so we have to 
special-case, especially as some people do write documents with no 
namespaces.

> does anyone see any advantages in an ability for a tag to belong
> to multiple namespaces at once? e.g. "<ns1:ns2:head>"...
> Namespaces 1.2 perhaps????

Oh no please no...

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Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
Research Engineer, Expway
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