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Paul Prescod wrote: > > 4.9) Why are special attributes used to declare XML namespaces? > > I don't know the answer to this question, but the likely reason is that > they simplify the process of moving fragments of one document to another > document. An early draft of the XML namespaces recommendation proposed > using processing instructions to declare XML namespaces. While these > were simple to read and process, they weren't easy to move to other > documents. Attributes, on the other hand, are intimately attached to the > elements being moved. > Yeah. What I understand is that the ability to locally bind namespaces is critical to the ability to stream process XML document composition, an element can define its own namespace prefix binding context. We recently went over this when I declared a namespace best practice of declaring the namespace bindings at the root element. I still maintain this is a best practice but best practices are meant to be broken for such efficiency reasons, and hence the ability to declare local namespace bindings is the correct one (IMHO) Jonathan
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