XML namespaces associate element and attribute names in an XML document with custom and predefined URIs. To create these associations, you define prefixes for namespace URIs, and use those prefixes to ...

There is an ongoing controversy in the XML world about the use of a feature called namespaces. By default, every element in an XML document is assigned to the “empty” namespace, but the document’s ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that the forthcoming Office 12 will save to XML by default and that earlier versions will be retrofitted to work with XML. This week Apple released its podcast-aware ...

A method for identifying XML elements and attributes that have the same name, but different meanings. For example, ADDRESS is a tag that can be used to identify totally different data elements such as ...

Abstract: In XML databases, several works have dealt with changes of basic components of XML Schemas: element and attribute declarations, simple types, and complex type definitions. However, there is ...

Namespaces, that arcane but crucial part of the XML standard, are an Achilles' heel that leaves Web services applications vulnerable to hackers, contends Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO at KaVaDo, Inc., a New ...

Recommendation: Change the default namespace before the XML Web service is made public. Each XML Web service needs a unique namespace in order for client applications ...