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• Subject: Default namespace for attributes?
• From: "Mukul Gandhi" <gandhi.mukul@g...>
• Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 22:35:25 +0530
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The XML Namespaces Recommendation says that the default namespace
applies only to elements, and not to attribues
(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#defaulting).

i.e. an unprefixed attribute name will always be in the null namespace.

I am curious to know why this is so?

Regards,
Mukul

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