Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** Copyright (C) 2012 Delcyon, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { public static String getPrefix(Node contextNode, Object[] arguments, int position) { String prefix = null; if (arguments.length > position) { prefix = arguments[position] + ":"; } else if (contextNode != null && contextNode.getPrefix() != null) { prefix = contextNode.getPrefix() + ":"; } else { prefix = ""; } return prefix; } }