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Re: a namespace definitions related question(s)

• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@g...>
• To: "Shlomo Yona" <S.Yona@F...>
• Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:27:30 +0100

* Shlomo Yona wrote:
><a:foo xmlns:a="foobar">
>  <a:bar xmlns:b="foobar">
>  </b:bar>
></a:foo>

>* If this is not well formed, then why?

Because of <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#GIMatch>. Namespaces are modeled
on top of XML, they are not part of the language and XML processors do
not recognize them in any way, instead they are handled by higher-level
applications that utilize an XML processor.
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  • a namespace definitions related question(s)
    • From: "Shlomo Yona" <S.Yona@F...>