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From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>
To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>,Thomas Passin <list1@t...>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:45:07 -0400

At 2016-09-29 16:26 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:

Someone, I think, had the bright idea that if a container element is in a namespace

<svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://svg.com/">
<rectangle/>
<circle/>
</svg:svg>

then there is no good reason why its children need to be in a namespace: like attributes, they are scoped by the container. The idea didn't catch on, but the schema spec was written in the belief that this was the way forwards.

This happened to be adopted for OASIS genericode. Only the document element is in the genericode namespace, all descendants are in no namespace.

We have a RDDL document at the URL of the namespace URI:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/ns/genericode/1.0/

So not only do we get scoping of the elements by the document element, we also get a pointer to documentation (by convention, not by spec).

. . . . . . . Ken

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References:
- targetNamespace and default namespace
  - From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@i...>
- Re: targetNamespace and default namespace
  - From: Thomas Passin <list1@t...>
- Re: targetNamespace and default namespace
  - From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@i...>
- Re: targetNamespace and default namespace
  - From: Thomas Passin <list1@t...>
- Re: targetNamespace and default namespace
  - From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>

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