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Re: [xml-dev] Question about the sytax of namespace declarations

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Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Question about the sytax of namespace declarations
From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:53:42 -0500
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[Jason Diamond]
To: "Wayne Steele" <xmlmaster@hotmail.com>; <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
> > Question:
> >
> > Is the below document "conforming" with regard to the XML-Namespaces
rec?
> >
> > <root xmlns:a="" />
>
> Nope.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#dt-prefix
>
 Ironically, the paragraph Jason points to covers __non__-default
namespaces, while the following paragraph, which does cover default
namespaces, specifically says that an "empty" value is acceptable.  So the
answer to the question is "yes" after all.

Cheers,

Tom P

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