5.9 The NamespaceSupport Class

<..namespace support ..>

public void startElement(String namespaceURI,
          String localName, String QName, Attributes atts) {
   NamespaceSupport namespace = new NamespaceSupport();
   namespace.pushContext();
     namespace.declarePrefix("or", "fruit://osu/or");
     namespace.declarePrefix("ap", "fruit://osu/ap");
     namespace.declarePrefix("",   "fruit://osu/ot");

     String parts[] = namespace.processName(QName, new String[3], false);
     System.out.println("Namespace URI: " + parts[0]);
     System.out.println("Local name: " + parts[1]);
     System.out.println("Raw name: " + parts[2]);
   namespace.popContext();
}

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<or:oranges     at="1">
  <ap:apples    at="3" >...</ap:apples>
  <other     or:at="5" >...</other>
</or:oranges>

Namespace URI: fruit://osu/or
Local name: oranges
Raw name: or:oranges
Namespace URI: fruit://osu/ap
Local name: apples
Raw name: ap:apples
Namespace URI: fruit://osu/ot
Local name: other
Raw name: other