XML namespace: Difference between revisions

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A simple example would be to consider an XML instance that contained references to a customer and an ordered product. Both the customer element and the product element could have a child element named '''id'''. References to the '''id''' element would therefore be ambiguous; placing them in different namespaces would remove the ambiguity.

== enginncanerNamespace names ==

A ''namespace name'' is a [[uniform resource identifier]] (URI). Typically, the URI chosen for the namespace of a given XML vocabulary describes a resource under the control of the author or organization defining the vocabulary, such as a [[uniform resource locator|URL]] for the author's Web server. However, the namespace specification does not require nor suggest that the namespace URI be used to retrieve information; it is simply treated by an XML parser as a string. For example, the document at http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml itself does not contain any code. It simply describes the [[XHTML]] namespace to human readers. Using a URI (such as <nowiki>"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"</nowiki>) to identify a namespace, rather than a simple string (such as "xhtml"), reduces the probability of different namespaces using duplicate identifiers.