org.apache.xml.utils
Class PrefixResolverDefault

java.lang.Object
  extended byorg.apache.xml.utils.PrefixResolverDefault
All Implemented Interfaces:
PrefixResolver
Direct Known Subclasses:
XPathNSResolverImpl

public class PrefixResolverDefault
extends Object
implements PrefixResolver

This class implements a generic PrefixResolver that can be used to perform prefix-to-namespace lookup for the XPath object.


Constructor Summary
PrefixResolverDefault(Node xpathExpressionContext)
          Construct a PrefixResolverDefault object.
 
Method Summary
 String getBaseIdentifier()
          Return the base identifier.
 String getNamespaceForPrefix(String prefix)
          Given a namespace, get the corrisponding prefix.
 String getNamespaceForPrefix(String prefix, Node namespaceContext)
          Given a namespace, get the corrisponding prefix.
 boolean handlesNullPrefixes()
           
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

PrefixResolverDefault

public PrefixResolverDefault(Node xpathExpressionContext)
Construct a PrefixResolverDefault object.

Parameters:
xpathExpressionContext - The context from which XPath expression prefixes will be resolved. Warning: This will not work correctly if xpathExpressionContext is an attribute node.
Method Detail

getNamespaceForPrefix

public String getNamespaceForPrefix(String prefix)
Given a namespace, get the corrisponding prefix. This assumes that the PrevixResolver hold's it's own namespace context, or is a namespace context itself.

Specified by:
getNamespaceForPrefix in interface PrefixResolver
Parameters:
prefix - Prefix to resolve.
Returns:
Namespace that prefix resolves to, or null if prefix is not bound.

getNamespaceForPrefix

public String getNamespaceForPrefix(String prefix,
                                    Node namespaceContext)
Given a namespace, get the corrisponding prefix. Warning: This will not work correctly if namespaceContext is an attribute node.

Specified by:
getNamespaceForPrefix in interface PrefixResolver
Parameters:
prefix - Prefix to resolve.
namespaceContext - Node from which to start searching for a xmlns attribute that binds a prefix to a namespace.
Returns:
Namespace that prefix resolves to, or null if prefix is not bound.

getBaseIdentifier

public String getBaseIdentifier()
Return the base identifier.

Specified by:
getBaseIdentifier in interface PrefixResolver
Returns:
null

handlesNullPrefixes

public boolean handlesNullPrefixes()
Specified by:
handlesNullPrefixes in interface PrefixResolver
See Also:
PrefixResolver.handlesNullPrefixes()


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