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Micah Dubinko wrote:
> Look at any introductory text on namespaces, and the first section
> explaining why they're needed will have an embarrassingly contrived
> example. --Try it!
I'd like to think XML in a Nutshell does a little better than that. The
example isn't too contrived. :-) More importantly though, the chapter
begins by explaining what namespaces are really for:
Namespaces have two purposes in XML:
1. To distinguish between elements and attributes from different
vocabularies with different meanings and that happen to share the
same name.
2. To group all the related elements and attributes from a single
XML application together so that software can easily recognize them.
The first purpose is easier to explain and to grasp, but the second
purpose is more important in practice.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu
XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published!
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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