Processing XML with Java™: A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX

Receiving Namespace Mappings

By default, namespace declaration attributes such as xmlns="http://ns.cafeconleche.org/Orders/" and xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" are not included in the list of attributes passed to startElement(). Instead each such namespace declaration attribute is signaled by a call to startPrefixMapping() immediately before the startElement() call corresponding to the element start-tag where the declaration appears. Furthermore, the endElement() call corresponding to the end-tag of that element is immediately followed by an endPrefixMapping() call.

public void startPrefixMapping (String prefix, String uri)
 throws SAXException

public void endPrefixMapping (String prefix) throws SAXException

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