[Petal] XIncludes problem and question

Fri Feb 14 09:38:55 GMT 2003

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Michel Hiver" <jhiver at mkdoc.com>
To: "William McKee" <william at knowmad.com>
Cc: <petal at lists.webarch.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 6:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Petal] XIncludes problem and question

> > Hi everyone,
> Hi William,
>
> > Time for more XInclude fun. First, a simple question. If I use an
> > xi:include tag in the head of an html document do I need to move the
> > xmlns definition into the <head> tag? Currently I'm putting it in the
> > <body> tag. Maybe I should move it into the <html> tag? The more I learn
> > about XML, the more confused I get.
>
> Yes, you can move your namespace declaration in the <html> tag.
> What's confusing you so much?
>

Hi William,

The namespace declaration applies to the scope of the element where it
resides, including the element itself and all of it's children.  In other
words, a namespace declared in the <head> or <body> element applies only
within the scope of that element.  A namespace declared in the <html>
element, or the root element of any XML document applies to the scope of the
entire document.  Hope that clears thing up.

Oh, and I think that according to the W3C specs, I MUST say that the
statement above is a NON-NORMATIVE description!

HTH,

Kurt Stephens
kstep at pepsdesing.com