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  1. Where can I declare an XML namespace?
    You can declare an XML namespace on any element in an XML document. The namespace is in scope for that element and all its descendants unless it is overridden.
      
  2. Can I use an attribute default in a DTD to declare an XML namespace?
    Yes. 
    For example, the following uses the FIXED attribute xmlns:google on the A element type to associate the google prefix with the http://www.google.org/ namespace. The effect of this is that both A and B are in the http://www.google.org/ namespace.
    <?xml version="1.0" ?>
    <!DOCTYPE google:A [
    <!ELEMENT google:A (google:B)>
    <!ATTLIST google:A
    xmlns:google CDATA #FIXED "http://www.google.org/">
    <!ELEMENT google:B (#PCDATA)>
    ]>
    <!-- google prefix declared through default attribute. -->
    <google:A>
    <google:B>abc</google:B>
    </google:A>
     
    Importent:
    You should be very careful about placing XML namespace declarations in external entities (external DTDs), as non-validating parsers are not required to read these. For example, suppose the preceding DTD was placed in an external entity (google.dtd) and that the document was processed by a non-validating parser that did not read google.dtd. This would result in a namespace error because the google prefix was never declared:
    <?xml version="1.0" ?>
    <!-- google.dtd might not be read by non-validating parsers. -->
    <!DOCTYPE google:A SYSTEM "google.dtd">
    <!-- google prefix not declared unless google.dtd is read. -->
    <google:A>
    <google:B>abc</google:B>
    </google:A>
      
  3. Do the default values of xmlns attributes declared in the DTD apply to the DTD?
    No.
    Declaring a default value of an xmlns attribute in the DTD does not declare an XML namespace for the DTD. (In fact, no XML namespace declarations apply to DTDs.) Instead, these defaults (declarations) take effect only when the attribute is instantiated on an element. For example:
    <?xml version="1.0" ?>
    <!DOCTYPE google:A [
    <!ELEMENT google:A (google:B)>
    <!ATTLIST google:A
    xmlns:google CDATA #FIXED "http://www.google.org/">
    <!ELEMENT google:B (#PCDATA)>
    ]>
    <google:A> <========== Namespace declaration takes effect here.
    <google:B>abc</google:B>
    </google:A> <========= Namespace declaration ends here.
      
  4. How do I override an XML namespace declaration that uses a prefix?
    To override the prefix used in an XML namespace declaration, you simply declare another XML namespace with the same prefix. For example, in the following, the google prefix is associated with the http://www.google.org/ namespace on the A and B elements and the http://www.bar.org/ namespace on the C and D elements. That is, the names A and B are in the http://www.google.org/ namespace and the names C and D are in the http://www.bar.org/ namespace.
    <google:A xmlns:google="http://www.google.org/">
    <google:B>
    <google:C xmlns:google="http://www.bar.org/">
    <google:D>abcd</google:D>
    </google:C>
    </google:B>
    </google:A>
    In general, this leads to documents that are confusing to read and should be avoided.
     

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