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Re: A proposal for application level XML 'namespaces'

• From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
• To: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>,"Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:15:14 +0100

Original Message From: "Andrew Welch"

>> I feel that this proposal is sufficiently radical
>
> One possibility that could be used today is to:
>
> 1. always use a prefix
>
> 2. use the same value for the prefix and namespace uri
>
> That way, given the element name you also know the namespace.
>
> Prefixes are already unique per domain anyway, and when XPath 3.0
> comes along with the "ns":local syntax it will fit nicely.
>
> Just doing that removes most of the complexity with namespaces, the
> only problem is losing the globally unique aspect... but in practice
> the prefix is already going to be unique in the subject area, and
> that's all it has to do.

So to check my understanding, do you mean doing:

<com.example.myschema:parent 
xmlns:com.example.myschema="com.example.myschema">
...
</com.example.myschema:parent>

Pete Cordell
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