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- package org.apache.xml.utils;
-
- /**
- * <meta name="usage" content="advanced"/>
- * The class that implements this interface can resolve prefixes to
- * namespaces. Examples would include resolving the meaning of a
- * prefix at a particular point in a document, or mapping the prefixes
- * used in an XPath expression.
- */
- public interface PrefixResolver
- {
-
- /**
- * Given a namespace, get the corrisponding prefix. This assumes that
- * the PrefixResolver holds its own namespace context, or is a namespace
- * context itself.
- *
- * @param prefix The prefix to look up, which may be an empty string ("") for the default Namespace.
- *
- * @return The associated Namespace URI, or null if the prefix
- * is undeclared in this context.
- */
- String getNamespaceForPrefix(String prefix);
-
- /**
- * Given a namespace, get the corresponding prefix, based on the context node.
- *
- * @param prefix The prefix to look up, which may be an empty string ("") for the default Namespace.
- * @param context The node context from which to look up the URI.
- *
- * @return The associated Namespace URI as a string, or null if the prefix
- * is undeclared in this context.
- */
- String getNamespaceForPrefix(String prefix, org.w3c.dom.Node context);
-
- /**
- * Return the base identifier.
- *
- * @return The base identifier from where relative URIs should be absolutized, or null
- * if the base ID is unknown.
- * <p>
- * CAVEAT: Note that the base URI in an XML document may vary with where
- * you are in the document, if part of the doc's contents were brought in
- * via an external entity reference or if mechanisms such as xml:base have
- * been used. Unless this PrefixResolver is bound to a specific portion of
- * the document, or has been kept up to date via some other mechanism, it
- * may not accurately reflect that context information.
- */
- public String getBaseIdentifier();
-
- public boolean handlesNullPrefixes();
- }