Re: Element equivalence under XML Namespaces

[Jaakko Kangasharju <jkangash@hiit.fi>]

Matthew Van Gundy <matt-xmldev@shekinahstudios.com> writes:

> Would any XML/Namespaces guru be willing to answer the following
> question for me?  Is the following a well-formed XML document:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <doc xmlns="http://foo.com/foo";>
>   <foo:elem xmlns:foo="http://foo.com/foo";>
>   </elem>
> </doc>

My reading of the specs says it is not.  XML Namespaces only applies
to XML documents, which requires well-formedness as defined in the XML
spec.  Since the string "foo:elem" does not match the string "elem",
this is not an XML document, so XML Namespaces does not apply to it.

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