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Greetings,
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Linda Grimaldi wrote:
> Am fairly new to this mailing list, and I must admit, the sheer volume and
> intensity of the messages is very impressive. I'm looking forward to
> participating more actively. But, for the moment, I hope you have patience
> for a relatively newbie question, to wit; How would I go about
> registering an XML namespace designation? Is it an IANA thing?
Because it's based on a URL prefix, you don't have to register anything.
You simply pick a URL (well, actually a URI, but the difference perhaps
doesn't amount to much in this context) which refers to a resource
you have control over. That's the namespace name. You might pick
`http://www.earthlink.net/my/path/to/DTD' for example.
Anyone who wants to refer to elements in that namespace can do so with
a declaration like
<x xmlns:blurble='http://www.earthlink.net/my/path/to/DTD'>
...
</x>
so that `blurble:' is now the namespace prefix they'll use in their
document.
The crucial points are:
- The URL doesn't have to point to anything, it's simply a means of
generating a unique string. However, it's obviously sensible if
it points to a DTD or something.
- You don't choose the namespace prefix -- that's up to the person
who's writing the document.
All the best,
Norman
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Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK norman@a...
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