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Jeff Lowery wrote: > (Do namespaces have names, or do names belong to > a namespace? There's a practical representational difference but is there a > semantic one?) Neither: element names and attribute names have namespace names. You can take "have" to be a symmetric relation and say the converse, that namespaces have names -- if QName x has namespace y, then namespace y "has" name x -- but I think this is misleading. Given a QName x and a set of in-scope namespace declarations, you can determine the namespace y unambiguously; but given a namespace name (URI) y, there's no way in general to tell what names "belong to" it. People often say "element z is in namespace y" as shorthand for "the namepspace name of the generic identifier x of the element z is the URI y". Personally I think this usage confuses the issue, but it's a convenient abbreviation. --Joe English jenglish@f...
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