xml-dev - RE: Namespace question

[Eric Bohlman <ebohlman@netcom.com>]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Dylan Walsh wrote:

> 	>- You don't choose the namespace prefix -- that's up to the person
>     >who's writing the document.
> 
> I am under the impression that if when an XML parsers and DTD do not
> distinguish the namespace prefix from the name of an element, that is if the
> namespace prefix is "a" in the DTD, I use the prefix "b" in my document (but
> it points to the same namespace URL), my document won't validate. Is this
> correct?

You're correct.  <!ELEMENT> and <!ATTLIST> declarations deal with element
and attribute names at the purely lexical level and treat QNames as
literal strings.  Additionally, xmlns-style attributes must be declared on
all elements that can take them (usually by restricting them to certain
places and declaring them with #FIXED defaults).



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