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add note about default namespaces changing interpretation of selectors
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<h1 id=css-namespaces>CSS Namespaces Module</h1>
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<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=longstatus>Editor's Draft 11 March 2008</h2>
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<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=longstatus>Editor's Draft 2 April 2008</h2>
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<dt>This version:</dt>
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<!-- <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-css3-namespace-20080311/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-css3-namespace-20080311/</a></dd> -->
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<!-- <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-css3-namespace-20080402/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-css3-namespace-20080402/</a></dd> -->
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must define how those unqualified names are to be interpreted when no
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default namespace is declared.</p>
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<p class=note>Note that using default namespaces in conjunction with type
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selectors can cause UAs that support default namespaces and UAs that
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don't support default namespaces to interpret selectors differently. See
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#downlevel">Namespaces and
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down-level clients</a> in the Selectors module <a href="#SELECT"
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rel=biblioentry>[SELECT]<!--{{SELECT}}--></a> for details.</p>
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<p>Namespace prefixes are, <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#counter">like CSS counter
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names</a>, case-sensitive.</p>

css3-namespace/Overview.src.html

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names to the default namespace must define how those unqualified names are
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to be interpreted when no default namespace is declared.</p>
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<p class="note">Note that using default namespaces in conjunction with type
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selectors can cause UAs that support default namespaces and UAs that don't
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support default namespaces to interpret selectors differently. See
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#downlevel">Namespaces and
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down-level clients</a> in the Selectors module [[SELECT]] for details.</p>
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<p>Namespace prefixes are, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#counter">like
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CSS counter names</a>, case-sensitive.</p>
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