• To: Micah Dubinko <micah@d...>
• Subject: Re: Partyin' like it's 1999
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 06:09:16 -0400
• Cc: Alessandro Triglia <sandro@m...>, 'Michael Champion' <michaelc.champion@g...>, xml-dev@l...
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Micah Dubinko wrote:

> Look at any introductory text on namespaces, and the first section 
> explaining why they're needed will have an embarrassingly contrived 
> example. --Try it!


I'd like to think XML in a Nutshell does a little better than that. The 
example isn't too contrived. :-) More importantly though, the chapter 
begins by explaining what namespaces are really for:

  Namespaces  have two purposes in XML:

   1. To distinguish between elements and attributes from different
   vocabularies with different meanings and that happen to share the
   same name.

   2. To group all the related elements and attributes from a single
   XML application together so that software can easily recognize them.

   The first purpose is easier to explain and to grasp, but the second
   purpose is more important in practice.



-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published!
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim

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