1 /* 2 * Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation 3 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 4 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 5 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 6 * 7 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 8 * 9 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 10 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 11 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or 12 * implied. 13 * 14 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 15 * limitations under the License. 16 */ 17 package org.apache.excalibur.xml.xpath; 18 19 /** 20 * Implement this interface in case you want to provide your 21 * own prefix resolving when evaluating XPath expressions. 22 * 23 * @author <a HREF="mailto:dev@avalon.apache.org">Avalon Development Team</a> 24 */ 25 public interface PrefixResolver 26 { 27 /** 28 * Given a namespace prefix, return the corresponding namespace URI, 29 * or null if the namespace prefix is not known. 30 */ 31 public String prefixToNamespace(String prefix); 32 } 33