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package net.sf.saxon.om;
/**
* This interface represents a node name. Actually it represents any QName, but it is intended for use
* as an element or attribute name. Various implementations are available.
* An important requirement of an implementation of this interface is that the hashCode() and
* equals() methods are implemented correctly, so that any two node names compare equal if and only
* if the local name and namespace URI parts are equal under Unicode codepoint comparison. To ensure this,
* the hashCode must be computed using an algorithm equivalent to that used by the implementation class
* {@link FingerprintedQName}
* This class is used to carry name information for elements and attributes on the Receiver pipeline.
* An advantage of this is that NodeName can include a fingerprint where this is available, but the fingerprint
* does not need to be computed if it is not needed. For example, names of nodes constructed by an XSLT
* stylesheet and sent down an output pipeline to a Serializer will generally not have fingerprints.
* Equality comparisons between NodeNames work reasonably well: the comparison can use the fingerprints
* if available, or the QNames otherwise. However, computing hashCodes is inefficient; it is not possible
* to take advantage of the fingerprints, because they are not always there. Therefore, using NodeName
* objects in structures such as maps and sets is generally a bad idea: it's better to use either the
* StructuredQName or the fingerprint as the key.
*/
public interface NodeName extends IdentityComparable {
/**
* Get the prefix of the QName.
*
* @return the prefix. Returns the empty string if the name is unprefixed.
*/
String getPrefix();
/**
* Get the namespace URI of the QName.
*
* @return the URI. Returns the empty string to represent the no-namespace
*/
String getURI();
/**
* Get the local part of the QName
*
* @return the local part of the QName
*/
String getLocalPart();
/**
* Get the display name, that is the lexical QName in the form [prefix:]local-part
*
* @return the lexical QName
*/
String getDisplayName();
/**
* Get the name in the form of a StructuredQName
*
* @return the name in the form of a StructuredQName
*/
StructuredQName getStructuredQName();
/**
* Test whether this name is in a given namespace
*
* @param ns the namespace to be tested against
* @return true if the name is in the specified namespace
*/
boolean hasURI(String ns);
/**
* Get a {@link NamespaceBinding} whose (prefix, uri) pair are the prefix and URI of this
* node name
*
* @return the corresponding NamespaceBinding
*/
NamespaceBinding getNamespaceBinding();
/**
* Ask whether this node name representation has a known fingerprint
*
* @return true if the method getFingerprint() will
* return a result other than -1
*/
boolean hasFingerprint();
/**
* Get the fingerprint of this name if known. This method should not do any work to allocate
* a fingerprint if none is already available
*
* @return the fingerprint if known; otherwise -1
*/
int getFingerprint();
/**
* Get the fingerprint of this name, allocating a new code from the namepool if necessary
*
* @param namePool the NamePool used to allocate the name
* @return a fingerprint for this name, newly allocated if necessary
*/
int obtainFingerprint(NamePool namePool);
}