Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >comp.text.xml Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - What does xmlns:xsi and xmlns:xsd attributes mean? [Thread Next] Re: What does xmlns:xsi and xmlns:xsd attributes mean?To: NULL Date: 5/11/2009 12:44:00 PM afshar wrote: > What does xmlns:xsi and xmlns:xsd attributes mean in a root element > like following? > > <Letter xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" > xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> Namespace declarations [1], presumably being declared here because the contents of the Letter may want to use elements or attributes in those namespaces. In this particular case, the namespaces being declared -- as the URIs imply -- are related to XML Schemas [2], possibly because the Letter's content may want to reference schema datatypes. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/ [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/ | ||||||
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