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Re:XMPP: Swiss Army Knife for the Internet of Things by Mikhail_Edoshin on Saturday August 06, 2016 @03:04AM (#12237350)
The explanation is complicated. XML has no namespaces, the real namespace of XML is flat and all names are globally unique. The things they call namespaces are long prefixes that can be shortened; also, one prefix can be made default at any point in the tree. By default the prefix is empty.

[Edit: rephrase.]

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