xml-dev - Namespace prefixes optional?

[Bob Kline <bkline@rksystems.com>]

I'm still trying to absorb all of the intricacies of namespaces, and I
can see I have a long way to go.  I'm looking at the XLink
recommendation (http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/) and I see the following:

  A sample set of declaration for a series of elements that use the
  type attribute might look as follows:

    <!ELEMENT student EMPTY>
    <!ATTLIST student
      xlink:type     (locator)     #FIXED "locator"
      xlink:href     CDATA         #REQUIRED
      xlink:role     NMTOKEN       #FIXED "student"
      xlink:title    CDATA         #IMPLIED
    >
    . . . .

  The following example shows how an XML document using these
  declarations might look:

    <student
      href="/students/patjones.xml"
      title="Pat Jones" />
    . . . .

Does this mean that once the namespace prefix has been declared in the
DTD the parsers understand that (for example) "href" really means
"xlink:href" (and therefore this sample document will be valid)?

-- 
Bob Kline
mailto:bkline@rksystems.com
http://www.rksystems.com


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