Industry-standard abbreviation for qualified name, as defined in the XML namespace specification. A QName is resource name that incorporates the namespace of the specification where that resource is defined.
QNames are composed of:
A URI representing the namespace of the resource's definition.
The name of the resource, usually called the localPart.
Some QName formats also include an alias for the namespace called the prefix.
QNames can be found in several formats. The canonical format for QNames in Depot is the one specified in javax.xml.namespace.QName
, which is the namespace URI enclosed in braces, followed immediately (with no punctuation) by the localPart. For, example: {http://open.iona.com/demo}SOAPHTTPService.
Another format is used in a self-contained document such as a WSDL contract, where a qualified name is in the form prefix
:localPart
. The prefix is declared in an xmlns
element in an XML namespace declaration in the same document. For example, ls:SOAPHTTPService is a qualified name, where the prefix ls
is defined in the statement xmlns:ls="http://www.iona.com/FixedBinding" earlier in the same document, and SOAPHTTPService
is a resource defined in the specification at that location.