WebLogic Server 6.1 API Reference

weblogic.apache.xml.utils
Interface PrefixResolver

All Known Implementing Classes:

ElemTemplateElement, StylesheetHandler, PrefixResolverDefault

public interface PrefixResolver

The class that implements this interface can resolve prefixes to namespaces.

Author:

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Method Summary

java.lang.String	getBaseIdentifier() Return the base identifier.
java.lang.String	getNamespaceForPrefix(java.lang.String prefix) Given a namespace, get the corrisponding prefix.
java.lang.String	getNamespaceForPrefix(java.lang.String prefix, org.w3c.dom.Node context) Given a namespace, get the corrisponding prefix, based on the node context.

Method Detail

getNamespaceForPrefix

public java.lang.String getNamespaceForPrefix(java.lang.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.

Parameters:

prefix - The prefix to look up, which may be an empty string ("") for the default Namespace.

Returns:

The associated Namespace URI, or null if the prefix is undeclared in this context.

getNamespaceForPrefix

public java.lang.String getNamespaceForPrefix(java.lang.String prefix,
                                              org.w3c.dom.Node context)

Given a namespace, get the corrisponding prefix, based on the node context.

Parameters:

prefix - The prefix to look up, which may be an empty string ("") for the default Namespace.

context - The node context from which to look up the URI.

Returns:

The associated Namespace URI, or null if the prefix is undeclared in this context.

getBaseIdentifier

public java.lang.String getBaseIdentifier()

Return the base identifier.

Returns:

The base identifier from where relative URIs should be absolutized, or null if the base ID is unknown.