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Re: [xml-dev] Global/Local attributes

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Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Global/Local attributes
From: "Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@seairth.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:16:47 -0400
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
>
> Seairth Jacobs scripsit:
>
> > True.  But then why use the default namespace at all?
>
> Syntactic minimization.

But it isn't just syntactic minimization.  Named namespaces and default
namespaces are not they same.  They have different semantics.  You cannot
necessarily use them interchangably.

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Seairth Jacobs
seairth@seairth.com

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