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import javax.xml.XMLConstants;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
/**
 * Few simple utils to read DOM. This is originally from the Jakarta Commons Modeler.
 * 
 * @author Costin Manolache
 */
public class Utils {
  private static final String XMLNAMESPACE = "xmlns";
  public static String createNamespace(Element el, String ns) {
    String p = "ns1";
    int i = 1;
    while (getPrefix(el, ns) != null) {
        p = "ns" + i;
        i++;
    }
    el.setAttribute(XMLNAMESPACE + ":" + p, ns);
    return p;
}
  public static String getPrefix(Element el, String ns) {
    NamedNodeMap atts = el.getAttributes();
    for (int i = 0; i < atts.getLength(); i++) {
        Node node = atts.item(i);
        String name = node.getNodeName();
        if (ns.equals(node.getNodeValue())
            && (name != null && (XMLNAMESPACE.equals(name) || name.startsWith(XMLNAMESPACE + ":")))) {
            return node.getPrefix();
        }
    }
    return null;
}
}