Not having a string representation also makes it
difficult to specify a namespaced identity outside the context of an XML
document.
</p>

<p>In order to pass namespaced values to transformations,
for 
instance when setting a property or a parameter on a 
<A HREF="../../../javax/xml/transform/Transformer.html"><CODE>Transformer</CODE></A> object,
this specification defines that a
String "qname" object parameter be passed as two-part string, the namespace URI
enclosed in curly braces ({}), followed by the loc