/*   Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
 *
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 *   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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package org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

public interface QNameFactory
{
    public QName getQName ( String uri, String local );
    
    public QName getQName ( String uri, String local, String prefix );

    public QName getQName (
        char[] uriSrc,   int uriPos,   int uriCch,
        char[] localSrc, int localPos, int localCch );
    
    public QName getQName (
        char[] uriSrc,    int uriPos,    int uriCch,
        char[] localSrc,  int localPos,  int localCch,
        char[] prefixSrc, int prefixPos, int prefixCch );
} 