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Subject: Re: [regrep] FW: Namespace management
Max Voskob wrote: > David and all, > > I think it's not about prefixes or how you declare your namespaces in the > instance documents. > > Imagine an organisation where 25 departments are creating different XML > documents and formalise them with all sorts of documentation including XML > Schemas. How do they ensure that the new namespace ID they've just come up > with is not already used somewhere else within the organisation? >>>>>>>>> I may be missing the use case for doing this. Namespaces use a unique value to qualify the namespace prefix. Ones own URL is often used becuase URL's are guaranteed to be unique. There is not problem with a collision of namespaces prefixes as long as the qualifier value is unique. example - the foo element <firstXML xmlns:ebxml="http://www.ebxml.org/thefirstplace"> <ebxml:foo>content</ebxml:foo> </firstXML> is different than <firstXML xmlns:ebxml="http://www.ebxml.org/somewhereElse"> <ebxml:foo>content</ebxml:foo> </firstXML> Of course, if the same organization uses the same namespace prefix and the same namespace qualifier, then it would indicate equivalency. Duane -- VP Strategic Relations, Technologies Evangelist XML Global Technologies **************************** ebXML software downloads - http://www.xmlglobal.com/prod/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
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