1. // $Id: XMLConstants.java,v 1.10.12.1 2004/05/05 20:04:51 jsuttor Exp $
  2. /*
  3. * @(#)XMLConstants.java 1.8 04/07/26
  4. *
  5. * Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
  6. * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
  7. */
  8. package javax.xml;
  9. /**
  10. * <p>Utility class to contain basic XML values as constants.</p>
  11. *
  12. * @author <a href="mailto:Jeff.Suttor@Sun.com">Jeff Suttor</a>
  13. * @version $Revision: 1.10.12.1 $, $Date: 2004/05/05 20:04:51 $
  14. * @see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/">Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1</a>
  15. * @see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition)</a>
  16. * @see <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-2e-errata">XML 1.0 Second Edition Specification Errata</a>
  17. * @see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names11/">Namespaces in XML 1.1</a>
  18. * @see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names">Namespaces in XML</a>
  19. * @see <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-names-19990114-errata">Namespaces in XML Errata</a>
  20. * @see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XML Schema Part 1: Structures</a>
  21. * @since 1.5
  22. **/
  23. public final class XMLConstants {
  24. /**
  25. * <p>Private constructor to prevent instantiation.</p>
  26. */
  27. private XMLConstants() {
  28. }
  29. /**
  30. * <p>Namespace URI to use to represent that there is no Namespace.</p>
  31. *
  32. * <p>Defined by the Namespace specification to be "".</p>
  33. *
  34. * @see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#defaulting">
  35. * Namespaces in XML, 5.2 Namespace Defaulting</a>
  36. */
  37. public static final String NULL_NS_URI = "";
  38. /**
  39. * <p>Prefix to use to represent the default XML Namespace.</p>
  40. *
  41. * <p>Defined by the XML specification to be "".</p>
  42. *
  43. * @see <a
  44. * href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-qualnames">
  45. * Namespaces in XML, 3. Qualified Names</a>
  46. */
  47. public static final String DEFAULT_NS_PREFIX = "";
  48. /**
  49. * <p>The official XML Namespace name URI.</p>
  50. *
  51. * <p>Defined by the XML specification to be
  52. * "<code>http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</code>".</p>
  53. *
  54. * @see <a
  55. * href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-qualnames">
  56. * Namespaces in XML, 3. Qualified Names</a>
  57. */
  58. public static final String XML_NS_URI =
  59. "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace";
  60. /**
  61. * <p>The official XML Namespace prefix.</p>
  62. *
  63. * <p>Defined by the XML specification to be "<code>xml</code>".</p>
  64. *
  65. * @see <a
  66. * href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-qualnames">
  67. * Namespaces in XML, 3. Qualified Names<</a>
  68. */
  69. public static final String XML_NS_PREFIX = "xml";
  70. /**
  71. * <p>The official XML attribute used for specifying XML Namespace
  72. * declarations, {@link #XMLNS_ATTRIBUTE
  73. * XMLConstants.XMLNS_ATTRIBUTE}, Namespace name URI.</p>
  74. *
  75. * <p>Defined by the XML specification to be
  76. * "<code>http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/</code>".</p>
  77. *
  78. * @see <a
  79. * href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-qualnames">
  80. * Namespaces in XML, 3. Qualified Names</a>
  81. * @see <a
  82. * href="http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-names-19990114-errata/">
  83. * Namespaces in XML Errata</a>
  84. */
  85. public static final String XMLNS_ATTRIBUTE_NS_URI =
  86. "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/";
  87. /**
  88. * <p>The official XML attribute used for specifying XML Namespace
  89. * declarations.</p>
  90. *
  91. * <p>It is <strong><em>NOT</em></strong> valid to use as a
  92. * prefix. Defined by the XML specification to be
  93. * "<code>xmlns</code>".</p>
  94. *
  95. * @see <a
  96. * href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-qualnames">
  97. * Namespaces in XML, 3. Qualified Names</a>
  98. */
  99. public static final String XMLNS_ATTRIBUTE = "xmlns";
  100. /**
  101. * <p>W3C XML Schema Namespace URI.</p>
  102. *
  103. * <p>Defined to be "<code>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</code>".
  104. *
  105. * @see <a href=
  106. * "http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#Instance_Document_Constructions">
  107. * XML Schema Part 1:
  108. * Structures, 2.6 Schema-Related Markup in Documents Being Validated</a>
  109. */
  110. public static final String W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI =
  111. "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
  112. /**
  113. * <p>W3C XML Schema Instance Namespace URI.</p>
  114. *
  115. * <p>Defined to be "<code>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</code>".</p>
  116. *
  117. * @see <a href=
  118. * "http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#Instance_Document_Constructions">
  119. * XML Schema Part 1:
  120. * Structures, 2.6 Schema-Related Markup in Documents Being Validated</a>
  121. */
  122. public static final String W3C_XML_SCHEMA_INSTANCE_NS_URI =
  123. "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
  124. /**
  125. * <p>W3C XPath Datatype Namespace URI.</p>
  126. *
  127. * <p>Defined to be "<code>http://www.w3.org/2003/11/xpath-datatypes</code>".</p>
  128. *
  129. * @see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel">XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model</a>
  130. */
  131. public static final String W3C_XPATH_DATATYPE_NS_URI = "http://www.w3.org/2003/11/xpath-datatypes";
  132. /**
  133. * <p>XML Document Type Declaration Namespace URI as an arbitrary value.</p>
  134. *
  135. * <p>Since not formally defined by any existing standard, arbitrarily define to be "<code>http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</code>".
  136. */
  137. public static final String XML_DTD_NS_URI = "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml";
  138. /**
  139. * <p>RELAX NG Namespace URI.</p>
  140. *
  141. * <p>Defined to be "<code>http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0</code>".</p>
  142. *
  143. * @see <a href="http://relaxng.org/spec-20011203.html">RELAX NG Specification</a>
  144. */
  145. public static final String RELAXNG_NS_URI = "http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0";
  146. /**
  147. * <p>Feature for secure processing.</p>
  148. *
  149. * <ul>
  150. * <li>
  151. * <code>true</code> instructs the implementation to process XML securely.
  152. * This may set limits on XML constructs to avoid conditions such as denial of service attacks.
  153. * </li>
  154. * <li>
  155. * <code>false</code> instructs the implementation to process XML acording the letter of the XML specifications
  156. * ingoring security issues such as limits on XML constructs to avoid conditions such as denial of service attacks.
  157. * </li>
  158. * </ul>
  159. */
  160. public static final String FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING = "http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/feature/secure-processing";
  161. }