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();

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"

AUTHORS

       Matt Sergeant, Christian Glahn, Petr Pajas

VERSION

       2.0008

COPYRIGHT

       2001-2007, AxKit.com Ltd.

       2002-2006, Christian Glahn.

       2006-2009, Petr Pajas.

perl v5.16.2							    2012-10-22						 XML::LibXML::Namespace(3)