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package org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.common;

public interface PrefixResolver
{
    /**
     * Called when the user has a prefix and needs to look up the corresponding
     * namespace URI. If the prefix is not defined in this context, then this
     * method may return null.  The no-namespace is represented by the empty
     * string return result.
     * 
     * If the prefix is null or "", then the default namespace is being
     * requested.  To conform with the XML spec, the default namespace will
     * return the no-namespace ("") if it is not mapped.
     */
    String getNamespaceForPrefix(String prefix);
}
