What is Namespace in XML
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Documents can become quite complex. They can consist of your own XML as well as XML from outside sources. Element and attribute names can start overlapping , which then makes the names ambiguous. How do you determine whether the name comes from your data or from an outside source? Looking at the document , you world have to guess what the element and attributes mean depending on the context.Unfortunately, applications processing the XML typically don’t understand context, so the document would no longer have the correct meaning . Namespaces solve this potential problem. (more…)
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