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  25 
  26 package javax.xml.soap;
  27 
  28 /**
  29  * A representation of an XML name.  This interface provides methods for
  30  * getting the local and namespace-qualified names and also for getting the
  31  * prefix associated with the namespace for the name. It is also possible
  32  * to get the URI of the namespace.
  33  * <P>
  34  * The following is an example of a namespace declaration in an element.
  35  * {@code <wombat:GetLastTradePrice xmlns:wombat="http://www.wombat.org/trader">}
  36  * ("xmlns" stands for "XML namespace".)
  37  * The following
  38  * shows what the methods in the {@code Name} interface will return.
  39  * <UL>
  40  *  <LI>{@code getQualifiedName} will return "prefix:LocalName" =
  41  *      "WOMBAT:GetLastTradePrice"
  42  *  <LI>{@code getURI} will return "http://www.wombat.org/trader"
  43  *  <LI>{@code getLocalName} will return "GetLastTracePrice"
  44  *  <LI>{@code getPrefix} will return "WOMBAT"
  45  * </UL>
  46  * <P>
  47  * XML namespaces are used to disambiguate SOAP identifiers from
  48  * application-specific identifiers.
  49  * <P>
  50  * {@code Name} objects are created using the method
  51  * {@code SOAPEnvelope.createName}, which has two versions.
  52  * One method creates {@code Name} objects with
  53  * a local name, a namespace prefix, and a namespace URI.
  54  *  and the second creates {@code Name} objects with just a local name.
  55  * The following line of
  56  * code, in which <i>se</i> is a {@code SOAPEnvelope} object, creates a new
  57  * {@code Name} object with all three.
  58  * <pre>{@code
  59  *     Name name = se.createName("GetLastTradePrice", "WOMBAT",
  60  *                                "http://www.wombat.org/trader");
  61  * }</pre>
  62  * The following line of code gives an example of how a {@code Name} object
  63  * can be used. The variable <i>element</i> is a {@code SOAPElement} object.
  64  * This code creates a new {@code SOAPElement} object with the given name and
  65  * adds it to <i>element</i>.
  66  * <pre>{@code
  67  *     element.addChildElement(name);
  68  * }</pre>
  69  * <P>
  70  * The {@code Name} interface may be deprecated in a future release of SAAJ
  71  * in favor of {@code javax.xml.namespace.QName}
  72  * @see SOAPEnvelope#createName(String, String, String) SOAPEnvelope.createName
  73  * @see SOAPFactory#createName(String, String, String) SOAPFactory.createName
  74  * @since 1.6
  75  */
  76 public interface Name {
  77     /**
  78      * Gets the local name part of the XML name that this {@code Name}
  79      * object represents.
  80      *
  81      * @return a string giving the local name
  82      */
  83     String getLocalName();
  84 
  85     /**
  86      * Gets the namespace-qualified name of the XML name that this
  87      * {@code Name} object represents.
  88      *
  89      * @return the namespace-qualified name as a string
  90      */
  91     String getQualifiedName();
  92 
  93     /**
  94      * Returns the prefix that was specified when this {@code Name} object
  95      * was initialized. This prefix is associated with the namespace for the XML
  96      * name that this {@code Name} object represents.
  97      *
  98      * @return the prefix as a string
  99      */
 100     String getPrefix();
 101 
 102     /**
 103      * Returns the URI of the namespace for the XML
 104      * name that this {@code Name} object represents.
 105      *
 106      * @return the URI as a string
 107      */
 108     String getURI();
 109 }