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XML Namespace
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Introduction
Purpose- distinguish between duplicate element names.
Each schema file associated with a URL to uniquely identify where elements come from .Like packages in Java
History of XML
XML was developed by an XML Working Group
SGML Editorial Review Board
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1996.
Chaired - Jon Bosak of Sun Microsystems & XML Special Interest Group
The first working draft was released in 1997
W3C recommended XML 1.0 on February 10, 1998
XML 1.1 - February4, 2004.
Conclusion
Namespaces are a simple and straightforward way to distinguish names used in XML documents, no matter where they come from.