Moving to XML

XML Namespaces

• Warning: Special use of the term!
• Allow mutiple XML dialects to be used in one document

xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

• xmlns means 'this is an XML namespace declaration'
• the rest means that names starting with xsl: belong to the namespace defined as http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform
• Note that the URL doesn't actually point to anything interesting, it's just a marker!

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