XML namespace: Difference between revisions

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All element names within a namespace must be unique.

A simple example would be to consideran 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 "ID_number". References to the element ID_number would therefore be ambiguous unless the two identically named but semantically different elements were brought under namespaces that would differentiate them.