• To: John Heinstein <jheinstein@e...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: namespace URI of xmlns prefix
• From: Mukul Gandhi <mukul_gandhi@y...>
• Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:59:52 -0700 (PDT)
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--- John Heinstein <jheinstein@e...>
wrote:
> But what is the namespace URI of the attribute? What
> namespace does the 
> prefix "xmlns" belong to?

The namespace URI will be
http://www.foo.com/some.namespace

> And then you have default namespace declarations,
> such as 
> xmlns="http://www.foo.com/some.namespace".
> 
> - the namespace prefix of the attribute is an empty
> string: ''
> - the local name of the attribute is "xmlns"
> - the value of the attribute is
> "http://www.foo.com/some.namespace"
> 
> And I presume in this case, the namespace URI would
> be an empty string?

namespace URI will again be
http://www.foo.com/some.namespace

> I'm asking because I'm unsure how a DOM method like
> getAttributeNS is 
> supposed to deal with namespace declarations. Would
> xmlns attributes 
> simply be ignored in this case?

I do not think so (it will not be ignored)..

This is nice information about namespaces
http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/NamespacesFAQ.htm

Regards,
Mukul


		
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