| /* |
| * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium, |
| * |
| * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for |
| * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This |
| * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that |
| * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied |
| * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. |
| * |
| * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 |
| */ |
| |
| package org.w3c.dom.xpath; |
| |
| /** |
| * The <code>XPathNSResolver</code> interface permit <code>prefix</code> |
| * strings in the expression to be properly bound to |
| * <code>namespaceURI</code> strings. <code>XPathEvaluator</code> can |
| * construct an implementation of <code>XPathNSResolver</code> from a node, |
| * or the interface may be implemented by any application. |
| * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20040226'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification</a>. |
| */ |
| public interface XPathNSResolver { |
| /** |
| * Look up the namespace URI associated to the given namespace prefix. The |
| * XPath evaluator must never call this with a <code>null</code> or |
| * empty argument, because the result of doing this is undefined. |
| * @param prefix The prefix to look for. |
| * @return Returns the associated namespace URI or <code>null</code> if |
| * none is found. |
| */ |
| public String lookupNamespaceURI(String prefix); |
| |
| } |
