<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hello,<o:p></o:p>

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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p>

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am trying to understand the impact of schema hints and evidence
from XML documents on the proper handling of namespaces. Here is what I came up
with<o:p></o:p>

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>a. Name is qualified in XML Schema: yes/no<o:p></o:p>

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>b. Name is prefixed in XML document: yes/no (default namespace
is also considered as a prefix, the empty string prefix, for this discussion’s
sake)<o:p></o:p>

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>c. Prefix for name is defined in XML document: yes/no<o:p></o:p>

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p>

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>There are 8 possibilities for the above criterions.<o:p></o:p>

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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p>

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>An error should be issued (not necessarily same error in all
cases) in all cases except for the following three:<o:p></o:p>

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p>

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>a==b==c==0<o:p></o:p>

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>a==1 b==0 c==1<o:p></o:p>

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>a==1 b==1 c==1<o:p></o:p>

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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p>

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My question is, are these indeed all possibilities? Are
there other factors that need to be considered? Is my understanding correct?<o:p></o:p>

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks.<o:p></o:p>

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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p>

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Shlomo.<o:p></o:p>