Declaring a Namespace

• XML namespaces are declared with an xmlns attribute

  • can associate a prefix with the namespace

• The declaration is in scope for the element containing the attribute and all its descendants.

<!-- Declares two XML namespaces. Their scope is the A and B elements. -->

<A xmlns:foo="http://www.foo.org/" xmlns="http://www.bar.org/">

<B>abcd</B>

</A>

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