XML namespace

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In XML, XML namespaces provide uniquely named elements and attributes. See Namespace.

Definition

XML namespaces are defined in a W3C recommendation.

Namespaces resolve ambiguity

An XML instance may contain element or attribute names from more than one XML vocabulary.

If each vocabulary is given a namespace, the ambiguity between identically named elements or attributes can be resolved.

Example

A simple example would be to consider an XML instance that contained references to a customer and an ordered product.

  • Both the customer element and the product element could have a child element named id
  • References to the id element would therefore be ambiguous
  • Placing them in different namespaces resolves the ambiguity

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