RE: [xsl] Re:XPathAPI: How to associate namespaces

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> > Is there any rule stating that a certain namespace URI (i.e. 
> > http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml has to use a specific prefix 
> i.e. xhtml)?
> 
> No, that's the whole point of the namespace system. 
> Individual authors can use any prefix they want, so as to 
> avoid conflicts with any other namespaces used in the document.
> 

But if you want your document to validate against the XHTML DTD, you
must make the XHTML namespace the default namespace, because DTDs treat
namespace declarations as ordinary attributes.

Michael Kay


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