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The Apache Commons Codec package contains simple encoder and decoders for various formats such as Base64 and Hexadecimal. In addition to these widely used encoders and decoders, the codec package also maintains a collection of phonetic encoding utilities.

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/*   Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
 *
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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);
}