XML::LibXML::Namespace(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation XML::LibXML::Namespace(3)
NAME
XML::LibXML::Namespace - XML::LibXML Namespace Implementation
SYNOPSIS
use XML::LibXML;
# Only methods specific to Namespace nodes are listed here,
# see XML::LibXML::Node manpage for other methods
my $ns = XML::LibXML::Namespace->new($nsURI);
print $ns->nodeName();
print $ns->name();
$localname = $ns->getLocalName();
print $ns->getData();
print $ns->getValue();
print $ns->value();
$known_uri = $ns->getNamespaceURI();
$known_prefix = $ns->getPrefix();
$key = $ns->unique_key();
DESCRIPTION
Namespace nodes are returned by both $element->findnodes('namespace::foo') or by $node->getNamespaces().
The namespace node API is not part of any current DOM API, and so it is quite minimal. It should be noted that namespace nodes are not a
sub class of XML::LibXML::Node, however Namespace nodes act a lot like attribute nodes, and similarly named methods will return what you
would expect if you treated the namespace node as an attribute. Note that in order to fix several inconsistencies between the API and the
documentation, the behavior of some functions have been changed in 1.64.
METHODS
new
my $ns = XML::LibXML::Namespace->new($nsURI);
Creates a new Namespace node. Note that this is not a 'node' as an attribute or an element node. Therefore you can't do call all
XML::LibXML::Node Functions. All functions available for this node are listed below.
Optionally you can pass the prefix to the namespace constructor. If this second parameter is omitted you will create a so called
default namespace. Note, the newly created namespace is not bound to any document or node, therefore you should not expect it to be
available in an existing document.
declaredURI
Returns the URI for this namespace.
declaredPrefix
Returns the prefix for this namespace.
nodeName
print $ns->nodeName();
Returns "xmlns:prefix", where prefix is the prefix for this namespace.
name
print $ns->name();
Alias for nodeName()
getLocalName
$localname = $ns->getLocalName();
Returns the local name of this node as if it were an attribute, that is, the prefix associated with the namespace.
getData
print $ns->getData();
Returns the URI of the namespace, i.e. the value of this node as if it were an attribute.
getValue
print $ns->getValue();
Alias for getData()
value
print $ns->value();
Alias for getData()
getNamespaceURI
$known_uri = $ns->getNamespaceURI();
Returns the string "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/"
getPrefix
$known_prefix = $ns->getPrefix();
Returns the string "xmlns"
unique_key
$key = $ns->unique_key();
This method returns a key guaranteed to be unique for this namespace, and to always be the same value for this namespace. Two namespace
objects return the same key if and only if they have the same prefix and the same URI. The returned key value is useful as a key in
hashes.
AUTHORS
Matt Sergeant, Christian Glahn, Petr Pajas
VERSION
2.0110
COPYRIGHT
2001-2007, AxKit.com Ltd.
2002-2006, Christian Glahn.
2006-2009, Petr Pajas.
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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