XML and namespaces

[Ash Berlin]

On 17 Mar 2008, at 19:22, Simon Wistow wrote:

> Say I have a document that looks like
>
>
> <foo xmlns:bar="http://example.com/bar">
>  <bar:subelement attr="something">
>    value
>  </bar>
> </foo>
>
>
> is the elementname of the subelement "bar:subelement" or just
> "subelement"?
>
>

'Name' is an ambigious term. You need to either say Local name/part or  
Qualified name:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QName

-ash