Xml namespace - C# / C Sharp

Tony Johansson

Hello!

What is the reason for having xml namespace ?
I know the reason for using namespace in C# but I can't see any similarities
to Xml.

Can you just give a simple example on a Xml document where namespace will
solve the problem.

//Tony

Aug 14 '08 #1

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Jon Skeet [C# MVP]

Tony Johansson <jo*****************@telia.comwrote:

What is the reason for having xml namespace ?
I know the reason for using namespace in C# but I can't see any similarities
to Xml.

Can you just give a simple example on a Xml document where namespace will
solve the problem.

You want to refer to elements in two different schemas, and both
elements are called "Foo". Namespaces allow you to differentiate.

In other words, it really is the same reason for having them in C#.
Admittedly they're a bit more of a pain in XML...

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Aug 14 '08 #2

Marc Gravell

It allows you to disambiguate between elements from different sources.
Perhaps more importantly, it allows you to write a compliant xml
document for cases when there is an expectation of namespaces ;-p

But as an example of the first, consider xslt; this uses a namespace
(commonly given the "xsl" alias) to indicate the xsl control statements
from output markup - i.e.

<xsl:choose>...</xsl:choose>

is a control statement (comparable to "switch"), where-as

<choose>...</choose>

(or other namespaces) is markup to be directed to the output stream.
Similarly, consider the <asp:Whatever>...</asp:Whateverin ASP.NET.

Marc

Aug 14 '08 #3

Pavel Minaev

On Aug 14, 11:45*am, "Tony Johansson" <johansson.anders...@telia.com>
wrote:

Hello!

What is the reason for having xml namespace ?
I know the reason for using namespace in C# but I can't see any similarities
to Xml.

Can you just give a simple example on a Xml document where namespace will
solve the problem.

An example would be W3C XHTML+MathML+SVG profile (http://www.w3.org/TR/
XHTMLplusMathMLplusSVG/), which allows to use all three languages in a
single document, to represent formatted text, vector graphics, and
formulas. Sample XML using that profile looks like this - note the use
of namespaces used to separate the languages:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>XHTML as the host language</title>
</head>
<body>
... XHTML content ...
<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
... MathML content ...
</math>
... XHTML content ...
<svg:svg version="1.1"
xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
... SVG content ...
<svg:switch>
<svg:foreignObject ...>
<p>
... XHTML content ...
<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
... MathML content ...
</math>
... XHTML content ...
</p>
</svg:foreignObject>
</svg:switch>
</svg:svg>
</body>
</html>

Aug 14 '08 #4

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