<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> Fabrice DESRE - FT.BD/FTRD/DMI/GRI wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:3BBB2C3A.44CC1D1F@francetelecom.com"> <pre wrap="">David Waite wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Two things: 1) the 'to' attribute (as well as the 'id' attribute) are part of the jabber:client namespace. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> No. Attributes must explicitly specify namespaces. They don't inherit from the default namespace (see §5.2 of <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/</a>).</pre> </blockquote> Argh, you are right (and reminded me why I hate XML namespaces so much). There is no way for an attribute to reference the default namespace URI within a qualified element; you have to define a new namespace prefix pointing to the same URI in order to pull it off. -David Waite </body> </html>