Namespaces in XML

A REC from Jan 1999

• A namespace is an association between a URI and one or more names.
• You bind a prefix to a namespace, e.g. <food n1="http://www.fish.org/banana/1.6">
• You use <food:durian-soup> to say the durian-soup element comes from the namespace http://www.fish.org/banana/1.6
• The prefix itself is not significant