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- To: John Heinstein <jheinstein@engageinteractive.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Subject: Re: [xml-dev] namespace URI of xmlns prefix
- From: Mukul Gandhi <mukul_gandhi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:59:52 -0700 (PDT)
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--- John Heinstein <jheinstein@engageinteractive.com>
wrote:
> But what is the namespace URI of the attribute? What
> namespace does the
> prefix "xmlns" belong to?
The namespace URI will be
http://www.foo.com/some.namespace
> And then you have default namespace declarations,
> such as
> xmlns="http://www.foo.com/some.namespace";.
>
> - the namespace prefix of the attribute is an empty
> string: ''
> - the local name of the attribute is "xmlns"
> - the value of the attribute is
> "http://www.foo.com/some.namespace";
>
> And I presume in this case, the namespace URI would
> be an empty string?
namespace URI will again be
http://www.foo.com/some.namespace
> I'm asking because I'm unsure how a DOM method like
> getAttributeNS is
> supposed to deal with namespace declarations. Would
> xmlns attributes
> simply be ignored in this case?
I do not think so (it will not be ignored)..
This is nice information about namespaces
http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/NamespacesFAQ.htm
Regards,
Mukul
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