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package org.apache.axiom.om;
/**
* A namespace binding specifying a namespace prefix and a namespace URI.
*
* Implementations of this interface must be immutable or behave as if they were immutable,
* i.e. {@link #getPrefix()} and {@link #getNamespaceURI()} must always return the same
* values when invoked on the same instance.
*
* Implementations must override {@link Object#equals(Object)} and {@link Object#hashCode()}. Two
* {@link OMNamespace} instances are considered equal if their namespace URIs and prefixes are
* equal.
*/
public interface OMNamespace {
/**
* Method equals.
*
* @param uri
* @param prefix
* @return Returns boolean.
*/
boolean equals(String uri, String prefix);
/**
* Get the namespace prefix. This method may return null for instances returned by
* {@link OMFactory#createOMNamespace(String, String)}. This indicates that Axiom should
* generate a namespace prefix when this instance is passed to one of the factory methods in
* {@link OMFactory}. In all other cases the return value is not null. In particular, an empty
* string indicates that no prefix is used, i.e. that the namespace is used as default
* namespace.
*
* @return the namespace prefix
*/
String getPrefix();
/**
* Method getName.
*
* @return Returns String.
* @deprecated This method is deprecated. Please use getNamespaceURI() method instead.
*/
String getName();
/**
* Get the namespace URI. This method never returns null. It may return an empty
* string if this instance represents a namespace declaration of type xmlns="". This
* may be the case for instances returned by {@link OMElement#getAllDeclaredNamespaces()}. On
* the other hand, methods such as {@link OMNamedInformationItem#getNamespace()} will return
* null for information items that have no namespace. In that case the returned
* string is never empty.
*
* @return the namespace URI
*/
String getNamespaceURI();
}