Table of contents

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1 Motivation and Summary

1.1 A Note on Notation and Usage

2 XML Namespaces

2.1 Basic Concepts

2.2 Use of IRIs as Namespace Names

2.3 Comparing IRI References

3 Declaring Namespaces

4 Qualified Names

5 Using Qualified Names

6 Applying Namespaces to Elements and Attributes

6.1 Namespace Scoping

6.2 Namespace Defaulting

6.3 Uniqueness of Attributes

7 Conformance of Documents

8 Conformance of Processors

9 Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)

Appendices

A Normative References

B Other references

C The Internal Structure of XML Namespaces

D Changes since version 1.0

E Acknowledgements

2 XML Namespaces

XML Namespaces

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