NAME
    URI::NamespaceMap - Class holding a collection of namespaces

VERSION
    Version 0.11_3

SYNOPSIS
      use URI::NamespaceMap;
      my $map = URI::NamespaceMap->new( { xsd => 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#' } );
      $map->namespace_uri('xsd')->as_string;
      my $foaf = URI::Namespace->new( 'http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/' );
      $map->add_mapping(foaf => $foaf);
      $map->add_mapping(rdf => 'http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#' );
      $map->list_prefixes;  #  ( 'foaf', 'rdf', 'xsd' )

DESCRIPTION
    This module provides an object to manage multiple namespaces for
    creating URI::Namespace objects and for serializing.

METHODS
    "new ( [ \%namespaces | @prefixes | @uris ] )"
        Returns a new namespace map object. You can pass a hash reference
        with mappings from local names to namespace URIs (given as string or
        RDF::Trine::Node::Resource) or namespaces_map with a hashref. You
        may also pass an arrayref containing just prefixes and/or namespace
        URIs, and the module will try to guess the missing part. To use this
        feature, you need RDF::NS, XML::CommonNS or RDF::Prefixes, or
        preferably all of them.

    "add_mapping ( $name => $uri )"
        Adds a new namespace to the map. The namespace URI can be passed as
        string or a URI::Namespace object.

    "remove_mapping ( $name )"
        Removes a namespace from the map given a prefix.

    "namespace_uri ( $name )"
        Returns the namespace object (if any) associated with the given
        prefix.

    "list_namespaces"
        Returns an array of URI::Namespace objects with all the namespaces.

    "list_prefixes"
        Returns an array of prefixes.

    "uri ( $prefixed_name )"
        Returns a URI for an abbreviated string such as 'foaf:Person'.

    prefix_for "uri ($uri)"
        Returns the associated prefix (or potentially multiple prefixes,
        when called in list context) for the given URI.

    abbreviate "uri ($uri)"
        Complement to "namespace_uri". Returns the given URI in "foo:bar"
        format or "undef" if it wasn't matched, therefore the idiom

            my $str = $nsmap->abbreviate($uri_node) || $uri->as_string;

        may be useful for certain serialization tasks.

WARNING
    Avoid using the names 'can', 'isa', 'VERSION', and 'DOES' as namespace
    prefix, because these names are defined as method for every Perl object
    by default. The method names 'new' and 'uri' are also forbidden. Names
    of methods of Moose::Object must also be avoided.

AUTHORS
    Chris Prather, "<chris@prather.org>" Kjetil Kjernsmo,
    "<kjetilk@cpan.org>" Gregory Todd Williams, "<gwilliams@cpan.org>"

CONTRIBUTORS
    Dorian Taylor

BUGS
    Please report any bugs using github
    <https://github.com/kjetilk/URI-NamespaceMap/issues>

SUPPORT
    You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

        perldoc URI::NamespaceMap

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
    Copyright 2012-2014 Gregory Todd Williams, Chris Prather and Kjetil
    Kjernsmo

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself.