Max wrote:


> - Is the default-default namespace  "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/" or an
> empty string("")?

The namespace with namespace URI http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/ is 
predefined for xmlns declarations, see 
<http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-names-19990114-errata> which says:
   "The prefix xmlns is used only to declare namespace bindings and is 
by definition bound to the namespace name http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/. 
It must not be declared. No other prefix may be bound to this namespace 
name."

I don't know what "default-default" namespace is supposed to be, if no 
default namespace is declared using xmlns="someURI" then elements are in 
no namespace if they don't have a prefix in their name.

> - Is the localname property for element without prefix the name of element
> (localName = nodeName) or an empty string("")?

Well it depends on the object model/standard/implementation but for the 
W3C DOM Level 2 Core in a namespace aware implementation the localName 
then is the same as the nodeName.

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	Martin Honnen
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