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Martin Gudgin wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@m...> > > > > why would anyone want to complicate this with different namespaces for > each > > element of the structure? > > I wouldn't 'complicate it with different namespaces for each > element in the > structure'. I would qualify the top-level element ( person ) and > not qualify > the children. This seems the most natural mapping to but that means there are (at least potentially) _two_ namespaces for the structure, one for the qualified top level element and another for the unprefixed children. > > package example.org.person; > > public class person > { > String given; > String family; > } > > to me at least... The difference is that in XML elements are first class entities, that is the "given" element is not declared within the scope of the "person" class. -Jonathan
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