ValidatorHandler.StartPrefixMapping(String, String) Method

Definition

Begin the scope of a prefix-URI Namespace mapping.

[Android.Runtime.Register("startPrefixMapping", "(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V", "GetStartPrefixMapping_Ljava_lang_String_Ljava_lang_String_Handler")]
public abstract void StartPrefixMapping (string? prefix, string? uri);
[<Android.Runtime.Register("startPrefixMapping", "(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V", "GetStartPrefixMapping_Ljava_lang_String_Ljava_lang_String_Handler")>]
abstract member StartPrefixMapping : string * string -> unit

Parameters

prefix
String

the Namespace prefix being declared. An empty string is used for the default element namespace, which has no prefix.

uri
String

the Namespace URI the prefix is mapped to

Implements

Attributes

Remarks

Begin the scope of a prefix-URI Namespace mapping.

The information from this event is not necessary for normal Namespace processing: the SAX XML reader will automatically replace prefixes for element and attribute names when the http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces feature is <var>true</var> (the default).

There are cases, however, when applications need to use prefixes in character data or in attribute values, where they cannot safely be expanded automatically; the start/endPrefixMapping event supplies the information to the application to expand prefixes in those contexts itself, if necessary.

Note that start/endPrefixMapping events are not guaranteed to be properly nested relative to each other: all startPrefixMapping events will occur immediately before the corresponding #startElement startElement event, and all #endPrefixMapping endPrefixMapping events will occur immediately after the corresponding #endElement endElement event, but their order is not otherwise guaranteed.

There should never be start/endPrefixMapping events for the "xml" prefix, since it is predeclared and immutable.

Java documentation for org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.startPrefixMapping(java.lang.String, java.lang.String).

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Applies to