Avi Kak <kak@e...> writes:

> Hello:
> 
> This questions relates to the behavior of the Perl 
> SAX 2.0 parser XML::LibXML::SAX. (This behavior is
> also shown by the XML::SAX::Expat parser and, 
> possibly by all other Perl SAX 2.0 parsers.)
> 
> My understanding of a default namespace is that
> all unprefixed names get assigned to the default
> namespace at and below the level of the element in
> which the default namespace is declared.
> 
> But when I try the XML::LibXML::SAX parser on
> the following document, I don't see the un-prefixed
> names 'y', 'C', and 'w' getting assigned to 
> the default namespace 

the default namespace only applies to elements not attriutes so
in your example y and w are in no-namespace and C is in the namespace
http://www.mywebsite.com/NS3names/

David


>    http://www.mywebsite.com/NS3names/.
> 
> Avi Kak
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <NS1:A xmlns:NS1="http://www.mywebsite.com/NS1names/"
>      xmlns:NS2="http://www.mywebsite.com/NS2names/"
>      xmlns="http://www.mywebsite.com/NS3names/"
> >
>     <NS1:B NS1:x="hello" y="jello" NS2:z="mello">
>         hellojellomello
>     </NS1:B>
>     <C w="cello"/>
> </NS1:A>