trunk/odfdom/src/main/java/org/odftoolkit/odfdom/pkg/NamespaceName.java

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package org.odftoolkit.odfdom.pkg;

/**
 * The NamespaceName interface is being used to provide an easy way to define Namespaces
 * in a higher layer (e.g. via enum as OdfDocumentNamespace) and access them from a lower layer e.g. constructors of org.odftoolkit.odfdom.pkg.OdfNamespace.
 */
public interface NamespaceName {

	/**
	 * @return the prefix currently related to XML Namespace.
	 * Note: Even in a single XML file, a user might assign different prefixes to a XML Namespace, different NamespaceNames might exist.
	 */
	public String getPrefix();

	/**
	 * @return the URI identifiying the XML Namespace.
	 */
	public String getUri();

}