[flexcoders] Re: Meaning of xmlns="*"?

Fri, 19 May 2006 13:59:36 -0700

Thanks for the clarification Gordon.  Some of this stuff you have to
learn by reading between the lines.

Cheers and thank you for all of your helpful responses,
Tim

--- In [email protected], "Gordon Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> It isn't required but it can be useful.
>
> If you put xmlns="*" on an <mx:Application> tag, or on the top tag
of an MXML component, you are saying that any tags such as
<MyComponent> that don't have a namespace prefix are to be found in
the same directory as the application MXML file.
>
> - Gordon
>
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Hoff
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 10:16 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Meaning of xmlns="*"?
>
> Hi,
>
> xmlns="*" is an application level namespace definition.  It was
> automatically included when you created a new MXML application or
> component, using File/New, in older versions of Flex.  It is no
> longer required.
>
> -TH
>
> --- In [email protected], "Stanislav Zayarsky"
> <zayarsky@> wrote:
> >
> > From help:
> >
> > Components in the same directory as the application can use a
> namespace
> > defined as either of the following:
> > xmlns="*"
> > xmlns:prefix="*"
> >
> > Best regards
> > Stanislav
> >
> >
> > On 5/19/06, fi_heidi <heidi.hunter@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm relatively new to Flex, and I'm editing some code in an
> existing
> > > project where these xmlns="*" declarations are scattered about
> in our
> > > components in addition to our own namespace declarations. To
the
> best
> > > of my knowledge, all our our custom components are qualified
with
> > > their namespace names in the mxml files. Being so, is this
> declaration
> > > necessary, and what exactly does it mean? The global namespace?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > /Heidi
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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