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-<!DOCTYPE reference PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Reference//EN" "reference.dtd">
-<reference id="rnmspc" xml:lang="en-us">
-<title>XML namespaces</title>
-<titlealts>
-<searchtitle>XML namespaces</searchtitle>
-</titlealts>
-<shortdesc>An XML namespace is a collection of names, identified by a URI
-reference, which are used in XML documents as element types and attribute
-names.</shortdesc>
-<prolog><metadata>
-<keywords><indexterm>XML namespaces<indexterm>overview</indexterm></indexterm>
-</keywords>
-</metadata></prolog>
-<refbody>
-<section>XML namespaces are defined by a W3C recommendation, dating 14 January
-1999, called <xref format="html" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/"
-scope="external">Namespaces in XML</xref>. XML tag names should be globally
-unique, as well as short for performance reasons. In order to resolve this
-conflict, the W3C namespace recommendation defines an attribute <b>xmlns</b> which
-can amend any XML element. If it is present in an element, it identifies the
-namespace for this element.</section>
-<section><p>The xmlns attribute has the following syntax:</p><p><codeph>xmlns:<varname>prefix</varname>=namespace</codeph> </p><p>where <codeph>namespace</codeph
-> is a unique URI (such as www.ibm.com) and where <codeph><varname>prefix</varname></codeph> represents
-the namespace and provides a pointer to it.</p><p>In the following customer
-element definition, an accounting namespace is defined in order to be able
-to distinguish the element tags from those appearing in customer records created
-by other business applications:</p><p><codeblock><acct:customer xmlns:acct="http://www.my.com/acct-REV10">
- <acct:name>Corporation</acct:name>
- <acct:order acct:ref="5566"/>
- <acct:status>invoice</acct:status>
-</acct:customer> </codeblock> </p><p>The <i>namespace definition</i> in
-the first line assigns the namespace <i>http://www.my.com/acct-REV10</i> to
-the prefix. This prefix is used on the element names such as name in order
-to attach them to the namespace. A second application, for example, a fulfillment
-system, can assign a different namespace to its customer elements:</p><p><codeblock><ful:customer xmlns:ful="http://www.your.com/ful">
- <ful:name>Corporation</ful:name>
- <ful:order ful:ref="A98756"/>
- <ful:status>shipped</ful:status>
- </ful:customer></codeblock> </p><p>An application processing both data
-structures is now able to treat the accounting and the fulfillment data differently.
-There is a default namespace. It is set if no local name is assigned in the
-namespace definition:</p><p><codeblock><acct:customer xmlns="http://www.my.com/acct-REV10" xmlns:acct="http://www.my.com/acct-REV10 ">
-<name>Corporation</name>
-<order acct:ref="5566"/>
-<status>invoice</status>
-</customer></codeblock></p><p>In this example, all tags in the customer
-record are qualified to reside in the namespace <i>http://www.my.com/acct-REV10.</i> No
-explicit prefix is needed because the default namespace is used. Note that
-the default namespace applies to any attributes definitions.</p></section>
-<section><title>XML schemas and namespaces</title><p>In the following XML
-schema, the default namespace for the schema is defined as the standard XML
-schema namespace <i>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchem</i>a; there is also a
-schema specific namespace <i>http://www.ibm.com</i>.</p><p><codeblock><?xml version="1.0"?>
-<schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://www.ibm.com" xmlns:TestSchema="http://www.ibm.com">
- <simpleType name="ZipCodeType">
- <restriction base="integer">
- <minInclusive value="10000"/>
- <maxInclusive value="99999"/>
-</restriction>
- </simpleType>
- <!--element definitions skipped -->
-</schema> </codeblock></p><p>Assuming that the preceding XML schema is
-saved as <filepath>C:\temp\TestSchema.xsd</filepath>, a sample XML file that
-validates against this schema is:</p><p><codeblock><?xml version="1.0"?>
-<x:addressList xmlns:x="http://www.ibm.com" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ibm.com file:///C:/temp/TestSchema.xsd">
- xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ibm.com file:///C:/temp/TestSchema.xsd">
-<x:address>
- <x:street>x:Vangerowstrasse</x:street>
- <x:zipCode>69115</x:zipCode>
- <x:city>x:Heidelberg</x:city>
- </x:address>
- <x:address>
-<x:street>x:Bernal Road</x:street>
-<x:zipCode>90375</x:zipCode>
- <x:city>x:San Jose</x:city>
- </x:address>
-</x:addressList> </codeblock></p></section>
-<section><title>Target namespace</title><p> The target namespace serves to
-identify the namespace within which the association between the element and
-its name exists. In the case of declarations, this association determines
-the namespace of the elements in XML files conforming to the schema. An XML
-file importing a schema must reference its target namespace in the schemaLocation
-attribute. Any mismatches between the target and the actual namespace of an
-element are reported as schema validation errors. In our example, the target
-namespace is http://www.ibm.com; it is defined in the XML schema file and
-referenced twice in the XML file. Any mismatch between these three occurrences
-of the namespace lead to validation errors.</p><p> The following examples
-show how target namespaces and namespace prefixes work in XML schemas and
-their corresponding XML instance documents.</p></section>
-<section><title>Sample 1 - A schema with both a default and target namespace
-and unqualified locals</title><p>The XML schema: </p><p><codeblock><?xml version="1.0"?>
-<schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://www.ibm.com" xmlns:x="http://www.ibm.com">
-<complexType name="AddressType">
-<sequence>
-<element name="name" type="string"></element>
-</sequence>
-</complexType>
-<element name="MyAddress" type="x:AddressType"></element>
-</schema> </codeblock> </p><p>A valid XML instance document created from
-this schema looks like this. Local elements and attributes are <i>unqualified</i>.</p><p><codeblock><?xml version="1.0"?>
-<x:MyAddress xmlns:x="http://www.ibm.com" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ibm.com x.xsd ">
-<name>Peter Smith</name>
-</x:MyAddress> </codeblock></p><p>When local elements (such as the <i>"name"</i> element)
-and attributes are unqualified in an XML file, then only the root element
-is qualified. So, in this example, the <i>"x"</i> namespace prefix is assigned
-to the root element <i>"MyAddress"</i>, associating it with the namespace <i>"http://www.ibm.com",</i> but
-the<i>"x"</i> prefix is not assigned to the local element <i>"name"</i>.</p></section>
-<section><title>Sample 2 - A schema with both a default and target namespace
-and qualified locals</title><p><codeblock><?xml version="1.0"?>
-<schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://www.ibm.com" xmlns:x="http://www.ibm.com" elementFormDefault="qualified">
-<complexType name="AddressType">
-<sequence>
-<element name="name" type="string"></element>
-</sequence>
-</complexType>
-<element name="MyAddress" type="x:AddressType"></element>
- </schema> </codeblock></p><p>A valid XML instance document created from
-this schema looks like this. Local elements and attributes are <i>qualified</i> This
-is because the elementFormDefault attribute is set to qualified in the XML
-schema.</p><p><codeblock><?xml version="1.0"?>
- <x:MyAddress xmlns:x="http://www.ibm.com" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
- xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ibm.com x.xsd ">
-<x:name>Peter Smith</x:name>
- </x:MyAddress></codeblock> </p><p>In this example, the <i>"x"</i> namespace
-prefix is assigned to both the root element <i>"MyAddress"</i> and the local
-element <i>"name"</i>, associating them with the namespace <i>"http://www.ibm.com",</i>.</p></section>
-<section><title>Sample 3 - Schema with target Namespace, and explicitly defines
-xmlns:xsd</title><p>This XML schema adds this attribute: </p><codeph>xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema </codeph><p>What
-this means is that each of the constructs that are defined by the XML schema
-language will need to be qualified with the <varname>"xsd"</varname> prefix.
-For example, xsd:complexType and xsd:string</p><p>. Note that you can chose
-any other prefixes such as <varname>"xs"</varname> or <varname>"foobar"</varname> in
-your declaration and usage.</p><p>You can specify this prefix in the XML schema
-preferences page. For more information, refer to the related tasks.</p><p>All
-user defined types belong to the namespace http://www.ibm.com as defined
-by the targetNamespace attribute, and the prefix is <i>"x"</i> as defined
-by the xmlns:x attribute.</p><p><codeblock><?xml version="1.0"?>
-<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://www.ibm.com" xmlns:x="http://www.ibm.com">
-<xsd:complexType name="AddressType">
-<xsd:sequence>
- <xsd:element name="name" type="xsd:string"></xsd:element>
-</xsd:sequence>
- </xsd:complexType>
- <xsd:element name="MyAddress" type="x:AddressType"></xsd:element>
-</xsd:schema></codeblock> </p><p>A valid XML instance document created
-from this schema looks like this. Local elements and attributes are <i>unqualified</i>.
-The semantics of qualification is the same as Sample 1.</p><p><codeblock><?xml version="1.0"?>
- <x:MyAddress xmlns:x="http://www.ibm.com" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ibm.com x.xsd ">
-<name>Peter Smith</name>
- </x:MyAddress></codeblock></p></section>
-<section><title>Sample 4 - Schema with undeclared target Namespace that explicitly
-defines xmlns:xsd</title><p>This XML schema has no target namespace for itself.
-In this case, it is highly recommended that all XML schema constructs be explicitly
-qualified with a prefix such as <i>"xsd"</i>. The definitions and declarations
-from this schema such as <i>AddressType</i> are referenced without namespace
-qualification since there is no namespace prefix. </p><p><codeblock><?xml version="1.0"?>
-<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
-<xsd:complexType name="AddressType">
-<xsd:sequence>
-<xsd:element name="name" type="xsd:string"></xsd:element>
-<xsd:element name="name" type="xsd:string"></xsd:element>
-<xsd:element name="name" type="xsd:string"></xsd:element>
-</xsd:sequence>
-</xsd:complexType>
-<xsd:element name="MyAddress" type="AddressType"></xsd:element>
-</xsd:schema> </codeblock></p><p>A valid XML instance document created
-from the schema looks like this. All elements are <i>unqualified</i>.</p><p><codeblock><?xml version="1.0"?>
-<MyAddress xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="x.xsd">
-<name>name</name>
-</MyAddress></codeblock> </p></section>
-<section><title>Sample 5 - A schema where the target namespace is the default
-namespace</title><p>This is an XML schema where the target namespace is the
-default namespace. As well, the namespace has no namespace prefix.</p><p><codeblock><?xml version="1.0"?>
- <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://www.ibm.com" xmlns="http://www.ibm.com">
-<xsd:complexType name="AddressType">
-<xsd:sequence>
-<xsd:element name="name" type="xsd:string"></xsd:element>
-</xsd:sequence>
-</xsd:complexType>
- <xsd:element name="MyAddress" type="AddressType"></xsd:element>
- </xsd:schema> </codeblock> </p><p>A valid XML instance document created
-from the schema looks like this:</p><p><codeblock><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<MyAddress xmlns="http://www.ibm.com" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ibm.com NewXMLSchema.xsd">
-<name>name</name>
- </MyAddress> </codeblock> </p></section>
-</refbody>
-</reference>
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