Re: Namespaces,

[Francis Norton <francis@redrice.com>]

Richard Tobin wrote:

> But that isn't what XML Schemas does.  Rather it allows a schema for
> some namespace to include declarations for elements in no namespace,
> provided they are contained within an element from the namespace.
> 
> That is, it provides an interpretation of elements in no namespace as
> being *scoped by* their containing, namespaced element.  It doesn't
> put them in the namespace, at least not literally.
> 
> But I'm sure you know all that.
> 
actually I hadn't appreciated that - I still don't like the outcome, but
it takes some of the ugliness out of what I understood was going on.
Thanks for pointing it out.

Francis.