Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. */ import org.w3c.dom.Attr; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { public static final String XMLNS_NS = "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/"; /** * Set a namespace/prefix on an element if it is not set already. First off, * it searches for the element for the prefix associated with the specified * namespace. If the prefix isn't null, then this is returned. Otherwise, it * creates a new attribute using the namespace/prefix passed as parameters. * * @param element * @param namespace * @param prefix * @return the prefix associated with the set namespace */ public static String setNamespace(Element element, String namespace, String prefix) { String pre = getPrefixNS(namespace, element); if (pre != null) { return pre; } element.setAttributeNS(XMLNS_NS, "xmlns:" + prefix, namespace); return prefix; } public static String getPrefixNS(String uri, Node e) { while (e != null && e.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) { NamedNodeMap attrs = e.getAttributes(); for (int n = 0; n < attrs.getLength(); n++) { Attr a = (Attr) attrs.item(n); String name = a.getName(); if (name.startsWith("xmlns:") && a.getNodeValue().equals(uri)) { return name.substring("xmlns:".length()); } } e = e.getParentNode(); } return null; } }