Tony Gill writes:
> For the benefit of some of the slower members of this list, would
> someone define the term 'namespace' please?
Hi Tony,
The XML-working group is currently developing a facility that will
allow, at least, Generic Identifiers (tag names) to have a prefix
which will make them unique and will prevent name clashes when
developing documents that mix elements from different schemas.
RDF utilizies this capability for defining unique element names for
resource description.
An exmaple namespace declaration would look like:
<?NAMESPACE Href="http://dublincore.org/DCSchema" As="DC">
The namespace 'DC' in use with an element defined by the Dublin Core
community would look like:
<DC:Creator>Tony Gill, [log in to unmask]</DC:Creator>
Hope this helps,
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