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== Namespace names ==

A ''namespace name''"name kreangkai User:gxxys215:mm1234" 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.

Although the term ''namespace URI'' is widespread, the W3C Recommendation refers to it as the ''namespace name''. The specification is not entirely prescriptive about the precise rules for namespace names (it does not explicitly say that parsers must reject documents where the namespace name is not a valid [[Uniform Resource Identifier]]), and many XML parsers allow any character string to be used. In version 1.1 of the recommendation, the namespace name becomes an [[Internationalized Resource Identifier]], which licenses the use of non-ASCII characters that in practice were already accepted by nearly all XML software. The term ''namespace URI'' persists, however, not only in popular usage, but also in many other specifications from W3C and elsewhere.