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Re: [xml-dev] Quiz: how many namespaces are in scope?

"Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org> wrote on 08/30/2010 01:57:35 PM:

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> NOTE: it is illegal to explicitly declare the xml namespace. The xml
> namespace is built into every XML application.

It is *legal* [1] to declare it provided that it's bound to the 'xml' prefix (with namespace name 'http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace').

> Since the xml namespace is implicitly declared in every XML
> document, you can immediately use the xml:lang attribute and the
> xml:space attribute, e.g.,

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#xmlReserved

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@ca.ibm.com

E-mail: mrglavas@apache.org



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