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[Janusz Ulanowski <janusz.ulanowski AT heanet.ie>]

On 26/02/16 10:09, Peter Schober wrote:
> * Janusz Ulanowski <janusz.ulanowski AT heanet.ie> [2016-02-25 23:13]:
> > I'm just curious how metadata is processed if there is entity containing
> > custom namespace but such namespace is declared in root element
> > (EntitiesDescriptor)
>
> Namespaces don't need to be defined in the root element, they can be
> defined on the element using the element or attribute itself, or even
> in appropriate parent elements, IIRC.
> But of course they need to be defined somewhere. The name of the
> namespace prefix is irrelevant. It get's resolved from the definition.
> -peter

I think my question wasn't clear.
What I meant was - if metadata consumed by edugain aggregator contained 
additional namespaces declared in root element.
I presume the aggregator inserts such declaration into every entity 
containing elements with these namespaces

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Janusz