geoff wrote:
> The snippet below had 'po' in front of 'billTo', 'shipTo', 'order', etc. but
> they say by moving the 'po' namespace definition to the 'po:po' element, the
> child elements fall into that namespace:

If so, they're wrong. However, you could get that effect by using the 
Default Namespace Declaration:

           <po id="43871" submitted="2001-10-05"
              xmlns="http://www.skatestown.com/ns/po">
              <billTo id="addr-1">
                 ...
              </billTo>
              <shipTo href="addr-1"/>
              <order>
                 ...
              </order>
           </po>

Note that the Default Namespace Declaration only affects elements. If 
you want attributes to be in a namespace, they have to use a properly 
declared prefix. (However, it is not uncommon for namespaced nodes to 
expect non-namespaced attributes, so always check your particular schema 
or application spec to see whether this is going to be an issue.)

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