Steve Jorgensen wrote:

> On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:23:37 +0200, Bob Smith
> <bobsmith1@m...> wrote:
> 
>>hi all,
>>I pretty new to xml, what does xmlns mean?
>>like in:
>><rdf:RDF
>> xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
>> xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
>> xmlns:perljobs="http://jobs.perl.org/rss/"
>> xmlns:taxo="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/taxonomy/"
>> xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
>> xmlns:syn="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
>> xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"
>>>
>>tia
> 
> Each xmlns... attribute means that, for the RDF element and any elements
> it contains, those are the prefixes used to qualify specific namespaces of
> elements (and attributes if required).
> 
> xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
> means that any element prefixed with rdf: (including the rdf:RDF element
> belongs to the namespace http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#.
> 
> xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
> means that any element with no prefix at all belongs to the
> http://purl.org/rss/1.0/ namespace.
right, so what is the idea on the client side? 
okey so we have namespaces, but what are they good for? Does the namespace
declare data types or only names?
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