• From: richard@i... (Richard Tobin)
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:57:49 +0000 (GMT)

In article <06F24820-70CA-4911-9C6D-C8F19EA71052@b...> you write:

>> <foo:bar xmlns:foo="foobar" xmlns:bar="foobar" foo:a="b" bar:a="c"/>
>>
>> foo:a and bar:a would be the same attribute and this should be  
>> reported as an error.
>
>By a namespace-aware parser. It's not an error for a non-namespace- 
>aware parser.

Yes, it's a Namespace well-formedness error:

  http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#dt-nwf

not an XML well-formedness error.

-- Richard

• References:
  • Re: a namespace definitions related question(s)
    • From: Chris Burdess <dog@b...>