I used the wrong term. Sorry. "Named namespaces" should have been
"prefixed declared namespace". I agree with your statement. Mine was
worded wrong to start with...
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Seairth Jacobs
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Bray" <>
To: "Seairth Jacobs" <>
Cc: "xml-dev" <>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Global/Local attributes
> Seairth Jacobs wrote:
>
> >
> > But it isn't just syntactic minimization. Named namespaces and default
> > namespaces are not they same. They have different semantics. You
cannot
> > necessarily use them interchangably.
>
> Wrong. They have different *syntax* rules. At the end of the day,
> every element & attribute always has a local part, and may or may not
> have a namespace name - whether the namespace name was defaulted or
> explicit is typically never of concern to someone processing the data
> downstream (with the exception of editor-class applications). -Tim
>
>
