[MEI-L] XML Namespaces in MEI

[Johannes Kepper]

If I got that right, all xml parsers need to understand the xml namespace without any further instruction. All parsers I’ve come across (well, the ones that did care about namespaces…) followed that rule. xml:base should work as you described, yes. Just like xml:lang…

jo

Am 04.09.2014 um 20:29 schrieb Andrew Hankinson <andrew.hankinson at mail.mcgill.ca>:

> Ok, so by extension
> 
> <someElement xml:base=“something”>
> 
> is OK too?
> 
> On Sep 4, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Roland, Perry D. (pdr4h) <pdr4h at eservices.virginia.edu> wrote:
> 
>> It’s enough to say
>>  
>> <mei xmlns="http://www.music-encoding.org/ns/mei">
>>   <someElement xml:id="abc123" />
>> </mei>
>>  
>> (oXygen seems to understand that @id is in the XML namespace.)
>>  
>> but
>>  
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <mei xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
>>   xmlns="http://www.music-encoding.org/ns/mei">
>>   <someElement xml:id="abc123" />
>> </mei>
>>  
>> is ok too.
>>  
>> You just can’t declare the XML namespace as anything other than “http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace”.
>>  
>> --
>> p.
>>  
>>  
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: mei-l [mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de] On Behalf Of
>> > Andrew Hankinson
>> > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 2:11 PM
>> > To: Music Encoding Initiative
>> > Subject: [MEI-L] XML Namespaces in MEI
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Does anyone know how the xml: namespace prefix works? Do you have to
>> > declare it explicitly, or is it always implicitly declared?
>> >
>> > So, do you have to do this:
>> >
>> > <mei xmlns:xml=“http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace”
>> > xmlns="http://www.music-encoding.org/ns/mei”>
>> >     <someElement xml:id=“abc123” />
>> > </mei>
>> >
>> > Or is it enough to do this:
>> >
>> > <mei xmlns="http://www.music-encoding.org/ns/mei”>
>> >     <someElement xml:id=“abc123” />
>> > </mei>
>> >
>> > -Andrew
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