mong Java programs, one must provide a means to map "xyz" to a namespace.
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<p>One solution has been to create a "QName" object that holds the
namespace URI, as well as the prefix and local name, but this is not always an
optimal solution, as when, for example, you want to use unique strings as keys
in a dictionary object. Not having a string representation also makes it
difficult to specify a namespaced identity outside the context of an XML
document.
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<p>In order to pass namespaced values to tran