FYI
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=502693
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Thomas Passin <> wrote:
> I seem to remember from way back a lot of discussion about how you would be
> able to use elements from another namespace or schema, if they weren't
> qualified somehow. That might have been mostly about inserting XML
> fragments from one document into another, I don't remember too clearly. It
> would have lead to not wanting to default namespaces to that of the parent
> element.
>
> TomP
>
> On 9/29/2016 11:26 AM, Michael Kay wrote:
>>
>> omeone, I think, had the bright idea that if a container element is
>> in a namespace
>>
>> <svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://svg.com/">
>> <rectangle/>
>> <circle/>
>> </svg:svg>
>>
>> then there is no good reason why its children need to be in a
>> namespace: like attributes, they are scoped by the container. The
>> idea didn't catch on, but the schema spec was written in the belief
>> that this was the way forwards.
>
>
>
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