A prefix is just a label for a namespace
As defined by W3C XML Namespaces
- Identify a namespace with a URI*, not a prefix
- XHTML: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/
- MathML: http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML/
- SVG: http://www.w3.org/2000/svg
- TEI: http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0
- EAD (Encoded Archival Description): urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9
and so on ...
(* Actually now an IRI, so you can use international
characters)
- Any namespace can have global scope without
risk of collision
- Authorities who define tag sets won’t fight over URIs
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Mulberry Technologies, Inc. • Taming the Namespace Beast • JATS-Con
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