Doug Schepers <> writes:
> Note that if the attributes of an element are in the same namespace as that
> element, you do not need to preface them with the 'mynamespace:' prefix;
> otherwise, you do.
this is wrong, at least given the way I parse that sentence.
unprefixed attributes aren't in any namespace at all. that surprised
me a fair bit when I was trying to grok XML namespaces.
in practice, it doesn't seem to matter much. once you've used a
namespace to disambiguate a given element, there's not usually room
for confusion at the attribute level. so people seem to generally
manage with unprefixed (and therefor un-namespaced) attributes. but
if for some reason you do want to put an attribute into a namespace,
you must prefix the attribute name.
--
joe
