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Re: Global/Local attributes

• To: seairth@s...
• Subject: Re: Global/Local attributes
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 17:10:03 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <004e01c23a37$9ec9e900$6600a8c0@seairthlaptop>
• References: <200208021508.LAA07236@m...> <004e01c23a37$9ec9e900$6600a8c0@seairthlaptop>

> Named namespaces and default
> namespaces are not they same.  They have different semantics.  You cannot
> necessarily use them interchangably.

namespaces always have a name. Whether that namespace is the default in
any particular document is just a feature of that document not a feature
of the namespace.

If there is a default namespace declared you can always make an
equivalent document that uses a prefix (and prefixes the elements)

Going the other way given a document in which every namespace is bound
to a prefix you can always take one of the namespaces and add a default
declaration for that namespace and remove that prefix from all the
elements.Of course  you have to leave any attributes
prefixed and leave in the original prefix binding for the namespace
if there were any attributes in the namespace. 

David



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