XML Namespaces

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XML Namespaces is a W3C specification that provides a method for qualifying element and attribute names in XML documents to avoid naming conflicts between vocabularies.


Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf W3C specification
XML technology
abbreviation XML Namespaces
appliesTo XML attributes
XML elements
compatibleWith XML 1.0
XML 1.1
conflictResolvedBy using different namespace URIs
using different prefixes bound to different URIs
defaultNamespaceAppliesTo unprefixed element names
defaultNamespaceDeclaredBy xmlns attribute without prefix
defaultNamespaceDoesNotApplyTo unprefixed attribute names
definesConcept default namespace
namespace URI
namespace name
namespace prefix
qualified name
unqualified name
doesNotDefine schema for XML vocabularies
semantics of element or attribute names
doesNotRequire dereferencing of namespace URIs
enables disambiguation of identical local names from different vocabularies
mixing multiple XML vocabularies in a single document
firstEditionYear 1999
fullName Namespaces in XML
hasVersion Namespaces in XML 1.0
Namespaces in XML 1.1
localNameDefinition part of a qualified name after the colon
namespaceDeclarationAttribute xmlns
xmlns:prefix
prefixBinding association between a prefix and a namespace URI
prefixDefinition part of a qualified name before the colon
primaryPurpose avoid naming conflicts between XML vocabularies
qualify attribute names in XML documents
qualify element names in XML documents
publishedBy World Wide Web Consortium
qualifiedNameStructure prefix:localName
relatedTo RDF/XML
SOAP
WSDL
XML Schema
XSLT
scopeOfDeclaration descendant elements of the declaring element
element where the xmlns attribute appears
standardType W3C Recommendation
syntaxBasedOn XML attribute syntax
usesMechanism URI references to identify namespaces
XML attributes to declare namespaces
usesURIAs identifier for a namespace

Referenced by (5)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
XML Namespaces ("Namespaces in XML 1.0")
XML Namespaces ("Namespaces in XML 1.1")
hasVersion
XML Namespaces
abbreviation
XML Namespaces ("Namespaces in XML")
fullName
XML
namespaceSpecification

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