Can an element's QName value be without a prefix?

• From: Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org>
• Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:28:14 +0000
• To: "xmlschema-dev@w3.org" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <B5FEE00B53CF054AA8439027E8FE17751822D606@IMCMBX04.MITRE.ORG>

Hi Folks,

Suppose an element is declared to be of type QName:

<element name="example" type="QName" /> 

In an instance document, can the value of <example> be without a namespace prefix:

<example>Hello</example> 

If yes, then what is the namespace URI for Hello?

Suppose I declare a default namespace:

<document xmlns="http://www.example.org">
      <example>Hello</example> 
</document>

Is Hello in the http://www.example.org namespace?

/Roger

Received on Monday, 12 March 2012 22:28:42 UTC