Namespace handling in XML Processors

[David Megginson]

schen at falconwing.com writes:

 > 1) If an XML processor was semantically interpreting an XML document but
 > encounters an unknown namespace, is it mandated to ignore all elements and
 > attributes in that namespace?  I thought this was the case, but after
 > re-reading the standard I see it's not defined.  If this is not
 > standardized, can anyone say what is currently the common practice?

I'd expect that it is the responsibility of the Namespace designer to
specify this: there is no single set of rules that will work for all
situations.

 > 2) How should a validating XML parser deal with namespaces?  

The validating parser must validate against the DTD -- the validation
(at least, as defined by XML 1.0) doesn't concern Namespaces.


All the best,


David

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