Moving to XML

Before we start: Namespace

• A context in which there are things with names
• Each thing in the namespace has a different name
• You can address a thing in the namespace just by using its name
• Examples
  • A family
  • This workshop
• This is a powerful concept, and I'm going to use it a lot - but it has special meaning in XML. Be clear about when I'm talking about an 'XML namespace' and when I'm just talking about a namespace!

[get participants to write their names on bits of paper. Make sure there are not two in the class with the same name. If there are, get them to add something to their names to disambiguate]

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