What do XML namespaces actually contain?
XML namespaces contain the names of element types and attributes. They do not contain instances of element types or attributes, nor do they contain the definitions of the element types or attributes. This is an important difference, as many people are tempted to think of an XML namespace as a schema, which it is not. An XML namespace is just a collection of names, nothing more.
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