Internet Explorer generates an error when the XML namespace is declared

Hi Folks,

Recall that the XML namespace is implicitly declared in every XML document. Consequently you can immediately use, say, the xml:lang attribute:

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XML Namespace is Implicitly Declared
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<movie>
         <title>The Laughing Cow</title>
         <title xml:lang="fr">La Vache Qui Rit</title>
</movie>


That said, it is perfectly legal to explicitly declare the XML namespace:

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XML Namespace is Explicitly Declared
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<movie xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace">
         <title>The Laughing Cow</title>
         <title xml:lang="fr">La Vache Qui Rit</title>
</movie>


When I opened the first version (implicit XML declaration) in Internet Explorer I got no errors.

When I opened the second version (explicit XML declaration) in Internet Explorer I got the following error message:

    The namespace prefix is not allowed to start with 
    the reserved string "xml".


/Roger