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package org.apache.axiom.util.xml;

/**
 * Contains utility methods to work with XML namespaces.
 */
public final class NSUtils {
    private static final char[] prefixChars = new char[62];
    
    static {
        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
            prefixChars[i] = (char)('0' + i);
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < 26; i++) {
            prefixChars[i+10] = (char)('a' + i);
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < 26; i++) {
            prefixChars[i+36] = (char)('A' + i);
        }
    }
    
    private NSUtils() {}
    
    /**
     * Generate a namespace prefix for the given namespace URI. The generated prefix is based on a
     * hash of the namespace URI. This implies that a given namespace URI is always mapped to the
     * same prefix and that there is no guarantee that the generated prefixes are unique. However,
     * the likelihood of a (accidental) collisions is very small.
     * 

* Using hash based prefixes has the advantage of reducing the number of entries created in the * symbol table of the parser on the receiving side, assuming that the symbol table is reused to * parse multiple documents (which is a common optimization). * * @param namespaceURI * the namespace URI to generate a prefix for; must not be {@code null} * @return the generated prefix */ public static String generatePrefix(String namespaceURI) { char[] prefix = new char[7]; prefix[0] = 'n'; prefix[1] = 's'; int hash = namespaceURI.hashCode() & 0x7FFFFFFF; for (int i = prefix.length-1; i >= 2; i--) { prefix[i] = prefixChars[hash % 62]; hash /= 62; } return new String(prefix); } }





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