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RE: Help needed in namespaces!

• To: "'Joseph Dane'" <jdane@h...>
• Subject: RE: Help needed in namespaces!
• From: "Doug Schepers" <doug@s...>
• Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:47:35 -0400
• Cc: "'Satish S'" <satish.s@h...>, <xml-dev@l...>
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Hi, Joe-

| this is wrong, at least given the way I parse that sentence.
| 
| unprefixed attributes aren't in any namespace at all.  that 
| surprised me a fair bit when I was trying to grok XML namespaces.
| 
| in practice, it doesn't seem to matter much.  once you've 
| used a namespace to disambiguate a given element, there's not 
| usually room for confusion at the attribute level.  so people 
| seem to generally manage with unprefixed (and therefor 
| un-namespaced) attributes.  but if for some reason you do 
| want to put an attribute into a namespace, you must prefix 
| the attribute name.

Yes, I do believe you're right, both about them not being in a namespace,
and about it being non-intuitive. ;)

I guess what I wanted him to take away from that was that he didn't need to
prefix most attributes, but that there were exceptions. But I did misstate
it.

Thanks for the correction.

Regards-
Doug

doug . schepers  @ vectoreal.com
www.vectoreal.com ...for scalable solutions.

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