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Re: Access XML

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• Subject: Re: Access XML
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:50:21 -0500
• In-reply-to: <3E78D67E.6030209@t...>

tbray@t... (Tim Bray) writes:
>Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <dataroot xmlns:od="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:officedata"
>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="booksByAuthor.xsd">
>
>Wow, not in a namespace?  And that 'od' thing, still the bogus 
>unregistered-fake-URN namespace?  Hmmmm -Tim

I have to admit that I'm enjoying a Microsoft tool that produces markup
in no explicit namespace.

The URN business is silly, but heck, it's a namespace URI.  Not like
you're supposed to _do_ anything with it, right? 

(And the document doesn't do anything with it, actually! Well, okay, the
schema does.)

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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