Pete Cordell wrote:
>> Another questions is: what happens with attributes:
>>
>> <foo:bar xmlns:foo="foobar" foo:a="b" a="c"/>
>>
>> Is there a "collision" between foo:a and a?
>
> foo:a and a are completely different attributes. This is really
> what namespaces enable.
>
> Conversely, in:
>
> <foo:bar xmlns:foo="foobar" xmlns:bar="foobar" foo:a="b" bar:a="c"/>
>
> foo:a and bar:a would be the same attribute and this should be
> reported as an error.
By a namespace-aware parser. It's not an error for a non-namespace-
aware parser.