Namespaces
Why I don't get namespaces
An interseting discussion on namespaces
Why Namespaces are Unnecessary
Here's what namespaces come down to. An unambiguous way to resolve all namespaces within an XML document is to replace every namespace anchor (I'm not sure about terminology), in other words, the dc in dc:creator, the xhtml in xhtml:body, etc., with the URI the namespace points to. So, instead of having xhtml, you have http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml (or whatever the URI is).
So, all namespaces really are are a shortcut, or an aliasing mechanism to a longer string. Namespaces aren't magic.
Page last edited: June 26, 2003 (utc)
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