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Doug Schepers <doug@s...> writes: > Note that if the attributes of an element are in the same namespace as that > element, you do not need to preface them with the 'mynamespace:' prefix; > otherwise, you do. this is wrong, at least given the way I parse that sentence. unprefixed attributes aren't in any namespace at all. that surprised me a fair bit when I was trying to grok XML namespaces. in practice, it doesn't seem to matter much. once you've used a namespace to disambiguate a given element, there's not usually room for confusion at the attribute level. so people seem to generally manage with unprefixed (and therefor un-namespaced) attributes. but if for some reason you do want to put an attribute into a namespace, you must prefix the attribute name. -- joe
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