prefixresolver.java

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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();
}