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Joseph,
Chiusano Joseph said:
> Eric,
>
> I'm not sure if I correctly interpreted "the combination used to mix
> the namespaces" in your original response below, but anyway here's an
> example with generic namespace identifiers/prefixes and elements:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <ns1:MyRootElement
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
> xmlns:ns1="http://www.abc.com
> xmlns:ns2="http://www.xyz.com
> xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.abc.com Schema1.xsd
> http://www.xyz.com Schema2.xsd>
>
> <ns1:SomeDate>2001-01-01</ns1:SomeDate>
> <ns2:AnotherDate>2001-01-01</ns2:AnotherDate>
> ...
> </ns1:MyRootElement>
I would argue that in this case, what's identifying your "document type"
is the xsi:schemaLocation more than the namespaces!
My point was rather that namespaces alone are not enough to guess what's
the document as a whole is about.
Eric
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