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QName

A QName, or qualified name, is the fully qualified name of an element, attribute, or identifier in an XML document. A QName concisely associates the URI of an XML namespace with the local name of an element, attribute, or identifier in that namespace. To make this association, the QName assigns the local name a prefix that corresponds to its namespace. In all, the QName comprises the URI of the XML namespace, the prefix, and the local name. The World Wide Web Consortium introduced the QName convention in the 1999 specification "Namespaces in XML".

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A QName, or qualified name, is the fully qualified name of an element, attribute, or identifier in an XML document. A QName concisely associates the URI of an XML namespace with the local name of an element, attribute, or identifier in that namespace. To make this association, the QName assigns the local name a prefix that corresponds to its namespace. In all, the QName comprises the URI of the XML namespace, the prefix, and the local name. The World Wide Web Consortium introduced the QName convention in the 1999 specification "Namespaces in XML".

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