This document explains the rules and concepts for the use of XML Namespaces in Tamino 4.2 in various areas, mainly the XML Schema-based schema definition language TSD4 and the query languages X-Query and XQuery. For reference, please see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/.
This document is intended to be read by administrators, application developers and other schema creators.
This document contains the following sections:
| General Information on Namespaces | A general description of what namespaces are and what they are good for |
| Namespace-Related Facilities in XML Schema and in TSD4 | The basic facilities related to namespaces in XML Schema and in TSD4. |
| Upgrade and Migration | Migrating from earlier versions and updating |
| Namespace Handling for Specific XMachine Requests | The consequences of the introduction of namespaces on collection names and doctype names |
This documentation uses a lot of namespace specific terminology that might be unfamiliar to some readers. For detailed explanations of the terms used, please refer to the Tamino glossary.
