No. It is an error if the processor matches only by prefix.
But, the colon was a legal part of an XML name, before
namespaces came around.
Without the namespace declaration, the XML is still "well
formed" if the node names contain prefixes and colons.
But XPath 1.0 section 5 says: XML documents operated on by XPath must
conform to the XML Namespaces Recommendation [XML Names].
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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