There is an ongoing controversy in the XML world about the use of a feature called namespaces. By default, every element in an XML document is assigned to the “empty” namespace, but the ...

An XML namespace uses a URL as a prefix in front of the "local name." The combination of URL and local name makes the element or attribute name unique.

If you take a look at the vast number of different XML formats being used to describe something as intuitively simple as an invoice form, you can see one of the problems that is now beginning to ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week published new editions of four core XML data exchange specifications, featuring corrections for known errata and clarifications where potential ...

The World Wide Web Consortium issues updates for four core XML specifications.

Recommendation: Change the default namespace before the XML Web service is made public. Each XML Web service needs a unique namespace in order for client applications to distinguish it from other ...

Some have chosen to know, use and love the @namespace syntax, while others have ignored it completely. The advantage of using a namespace, of course, is that it works in any non-XML-based ML ...