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This chapter is about XML namespaces, the standard mechanism for assigning expanded-names to elements and attributes. The first part, “Understanding Namespaces,” looks at what their purpose is and how the mechanism itself works. The second part, “Namespaces in XSLT,” presents an in-depth look at how XSLT handles namespaces, including coverage of features that are new in XSLT 2.0.