Thanks Duane. I think the prefix reference below was a carry-over from
the e-mail I cross posted between XML-DEV and here last week, in which
someone misunderstood the use of namespace prefixes. We're all on the
same page here.
Joe
Duane Nickull wrote:
>
> Max Voskob wrote:
> > David and all,
> >
> > I think it's not about prefixes or how you declare your namespaces in the
> > instance documents.
> >
> > Imagine an organisation where 25 departments are creating different XML
> > documents and formalise them with all sorts of documentation including XML
> > Schemas. How do they ensure that the new namespace ID they've just come up
> > with is not already used somewhere else within the organisation?
> >>>>>>>>>
> I may be missing the use case for doing this.
>
> Namespaces use a unique value to qualify the namespace prefix. Ones own
> URL is often used becuase URL's are guaranteed to be unique. There is
> not problem with a collision of namespaces prefixes as long as the
> qualifier value is unique.
>
> example - the foo element
>
> <firstXML xmlns:ebxml="http://www.ebxml.org/thefirstplace">
> <ebxml:foo>content</ebxml:foo>
> </firstXML>
>
> is different than
>
> <firstXML xmlns:ebxml="http://www.ebxml.org/somewhereElse">
> <ebxml:foo>content</ebxml:foo>
> </firstXML>
>
> Of course, if the same organization uses the same namespace prefix and
> the same namespace qualifier, then it would indicate equivalency.
>
> Duane
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