• From: Martin Gudgin <marting@d...>
• To: Jeff Rafter <jeffrafter@e...>,"Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@h...>, Charles Reitzel <creitzel@m...>
• Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:21:21 +0000

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Rafter" <jeffrafter@e...>
To: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@h...>; "Charles Reitzel"
<creitzel@m...>
Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: Relative Namespaces


<SNIP>
> Also to clarify-- is Tim saying that the following is pointless because it
> equates to a prefixed name being treated as a non namespace name or is he
> saying that the document is in error wrt to namespaces because the prefix
> can not logically be resolved?
>
>   <foo:bar xmlns:foo="http://foo.com">
>     <foo:baz xmlns:foo=""/>
>   </foo:bar>

The document is in error and most ( but not all :-) ) XML parsers would
throw an error of some kind.

Martin Gudgin
DevelopMentor

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