Special Edition Using XML, Second Edition

Roadmap

XML Namespaces might be simple, but they impact a wide variety of XML technologies, from well-formed XML documents, to XML Schemas, to various XML vocabularies. Namespaces are quite possibly the best example of a member of the XML family of Recommendations that touches nearly every other aspect of XML.

Namespaces are also the final tool in the set of “core” XML technologies that deal directly with the creation of well-formed and valid XML documents. You now have an understanding of well-formed XML, valid XML, Document Type Definitions, and XML Schemas. And you now know how XML Namespaces relates to those technologies as well. That completes the core set of XML technologies, so we can now branch out into related technologies that take ...