XML News from Monday, February 18, 2008

The W3C CSS working group has posted the last call working draft of CSS Module: Namespaces. This module "defines the syntax for using namespaces in CSS. It defines the @namespace rule for declaring the default namespace and binding namespaces to namespace prefixes, and it also defines a syntax that other specifications can adopt for using those prefixes in namespace-qualified names. ."

Given the namespace declarations:

@namespace toto "http://toto.example.org";
@namespace "http://example.com/foo";

In a context where the default namespace applies

toto|A

represents the name A in the http://toto.example.org namespace.

|B

represents the name B that belongs to no namespace.

*|C

represents the name C in any namespace, including no namespace.

D

represents the name D in the http://example.com/foo namespace.