Namespace prefix question

[Tim Bray]

At 02:27 PM 2/3/00 -0500, Hunter, David wrote:
>This is actually more of a confirmation than a question:  Can I use the same
>namespace prefix more than once in an XML document, pointing to different
>namespaces?  Like the following:
>
><hi:element xmlns:hi="http://www.sernaferna.com">
>  <hi:element2 xmlns:hi="http://www.blah.com"/>
></hi:element>
>
>Regardless of the fact that this is probably a bad idea, is it legal?  MSXML
>doesn't complain, and neither does the XML parser bundled with XT (XP?).

Yes, bad idea.  Yes, legal. -T.


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