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

E Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

This work reflects input from a very large number of people, including especially the participants in the World Wide Web Consortium XML Working Group and Special Interest Group and the participants in the W3C Metadata Activity. The contributions of Charles Frankston of Microsoft were particularly valuable.