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package org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.common;
public interface PrefixResolver
{
/**
* Caled when the user has a prefix and needs to look up the corresponding
* namespace URI. If the prefix is not defined in this context, then this
* method may return null. The no-namespace is represented by the empty
* string return result.
*
* If the prefix is null or "", then the default namespace is being
* requested. To conform with the XML spec, the default namespace will
* return the no-namespace ("") if it is not mapped.
*/
String getNamespaceForPrefix(String prefix);
}