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On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Paul Spencer <xml-dev-list@boynings.co.uk> wrote: > I deal with many document types that have an envelope within which is both > addressing information (and perhaps other things such as a digital > signature) and a single payload element containing data. In other words, the > payload data would be a well-formed XML document on its own with its own > root element, but this is embedded in something else. In this case, it is > common to declare a default namespace in the embedded element that is > different from the namespace(s) of the envelope. SOAP-based web services > also come to mind. A default namespace that changes is not nearly as big a problem as a prefix that changes. I am 95% certain that the pain caused by allowing prefix declarations only on the root element would be far less than the pain caused by allowing redeclarations of prefixes. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@ibiblio.org
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