What does the XML syntax with a colon mean?
The XML syntax, rd:, is a namespace prefix, an abbreviation for a namespace URI. XML Namespaces The purpose of XML namespaces is explained clearly in Section 1, Motivation and Summary of the W3C Recommendation: Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition): We envision applications of Extensible Markup Language (XML) where a single XML document may contain … Read more