RE: This is a very basic question...

[Michael Fitzgerald <mike@wyeast.net>]

QName = qualified name, that is, a name qualified by a prefix associated
with a namespace, as in order:Order.
NCName = non-colonized name, that is, a name that is not qualified with a
namespace-related prefix, as in Order.

A favorite quote: "You can never ask too many obvious questions." - Guy
Blair

-Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Van Den Hoven [mailto:Adam.Hoven@bluezone.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 9:40 AM
> To: XML Development Mailing List (E-mail)
> Subject: This is a very basic question...
>
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I've been doing XML stuff for nearly a year now and I'm willing
> to say that
> I know what I'm doing. However, I was going over some of W3 specs
> yesterday,
> looking to integrate them into a schema I need to develop in the next few
> months, and I realized that I had no idea what a NCName was (it comes up a
> fair bit). Thinking further, I didn't really know what a qname
> was either. I
> have a rudimentary knowledge of what they do, but mostly because
> I've looked
> at examples and figured it out.
>
> Is there a glossary of XML terms that I can look at?
>
> > Adam van den Hoven
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