[MEI-L] XML Namespaces in MEI

[Roland, Perry D. (pdr4h)]

What he said. :-)

Namespace-aware software should "automagically" support the XML namespace.  Have a look at http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=31837&seqNum=9.

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p.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mei-l [mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de] On Behalf Of
> Johannes Kepper
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 2:34 PM
> To: Music Encoding Initiative
> Subject: Re: [MEI-L] XML Namespaces in MEI
> 
> 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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