- From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:58:14 GMT
- To: malachi@tremerechantry.com, Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, xml-names-editor@w3.org
> So, are you saying:
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/blah"
> xmlns:other="http://www.other.com"
>
> the first one has a 'null' namespace name and the second has the 'other'
> namespace name?
"X is in the namespace http://whatever" and "X's namespace name is
http://whatever" mean the same thing.
"X is in no namespace" and "X's namespace name is null" mean the same
thing.
An element is in no namespace if it has no prefix, and there is no
default namespace in scope.
An attribute is in no namespace if it has no prefix.
In the document
<foo/>
foo is in no namespace, and its namespace name is null.
In the document
<foo xmlns="http://example.org" xmlns:a="http://other.com"
attr1="xyz" a:attr2="abc"/>
foo is in the namespace http://example.org and its
namespace name is http://example.org
attr1 is in no namespace and its namespace name is null
attr2 is in the namespace http://other.com and its
namespace name is http://other.com
-- Richard
Received on Monday, 24 February 2003 10:58:26 UTC