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Re: Element equivalence under XML Namespaces

• From: Jaakko Kangasharju <jkangash@h...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:02:43 +0200

Matthew Van Gundy <matt-xmldev@s...> writes:

> Would any XML/Namespaces guru be willing to answer the following
> question for me?  Is the following a well-formed XML document:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <doc xmlns="http://foo.com/foo">
>   <foo:elem xmlns:foo="http://foo.com/foo">
>   </elem>
> </doc>

My reading of the specs says it is not.  XML Namespaces only applies
to XML documents, which requires well-formedness as defined in the XML
spec.  Since the string "foo:elem" does not match the string "elem",
this is not an XML document, so XML Namespaces does not apply to it.

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Jaakko Kangasharju, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
Happiness is warm feet

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    • From: Matthew Van Gundy <matt-xmldev@s...>