Name

Namespaces in XML

Status

Namespaces became a Recommendation in January 1999, and the specification is published at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/.

Description

XML namespaces provide a simple method for qualifying element and attribute names used in XML documents by associating them with namespaces identified by URI references.

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