Re: [xml-dev] a namespace definitions related question(s)

[Chris Burdess <dog@bluezoo.org>]

Pete Cordell wrote:
>> Another questions is: what happens with attributes:
>>
>> <foo:bar xmlns:foo="foobar" foo:a="b" a="c"/>
>>
>> Is there a "collision" between foo:a and a?
>
> foo:a and a are completely different attributes.  This is really  
> what namespaces enable.
>
> Conversely, in:
>
> <foo:bar xmlns:foo="foobar" xmlns:bar="foobar" foo:a="b" bar:a="c"/>
>
> foo:a and bar:a would be the same attribute and this should be  
> reported as an error.

By a namespace-aware parser. It's not an error for a non-namespace- 
aware parser.