A representation of an XML name. This interface provides methods for
getting the local and namespace-qualified names and also for getting the
prefix associated with the namespace for the name. It is also possible
to get the URI of the namespace.
The following is an example of a namespace declaration in an element.
<wombat:GetLastTradePrice xmlns:wombat="http://www.wombat.org/trader">
("xmlns" stands for "XML namespace".)
The following
shows what the methods in the
Name
interface will return.
getQualifiedName
will return "prefix:LocalName" =
"WOMBAT:GetLastTradePrice"
getURI
will return "http://www.wombat.org/trader"
getLocalName
will return "GetLastTracePrice"
getPrefix
will return "WOMBAT"
XML namespaces are used to disambiguate SOAP identifiers from
application-specific identifiers.
Name
objects are created using the method
SOAPEnvelope.createName
, which has two versions.
One method creates Name
objects with
a local name, a namespace prefix, and a namespace URI.
and the second creates Name
objects with just a local name.
The following line of
code, in which se is a SOAPEnvelope
object, creates a new
Name
object with all three.
Name name = se.createName("GetLastTradePrice", "WOMBAT",
"http://www.wombat.org/trader");
The following line of code gives an example of how a
Name
object
can be used. The variable
element is a
SOAPElement
object.
This code creates a new
SOAPElement
object with the given name and
adds it to
element.
element.addChildElement(name);
The Name
interface may be deprecated in a future release of SAAJ
in favor of javax.xml.namespace.QName