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

VERSION
    Version 1.04

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' )
      $map->foaf; # Returns URI::Namespace object

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::Curated, 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 URI::Namespace object (if any) associated with the given
        prefix.

    $name
        This module creates a method for all the prefixes, so you can say e.g.

          $map->foaf

        and get a URI::Namespace object for the FOAF namespace. Since
        URI::Namespace does the same for local names, you can then say e.g.

          $map->foaf->name

        to get a full URI.

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

    `list_prefixes`
        Returns an array of prefixes.

    `guess_and_add ( @string_or_uri )`
        Like in the constructor, an array of strings can be given, and the
        module will attempt to guess appropriate mappings, and add them to the
        map.

    `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.

    Using them will result in an error.

AUTHORS
    Chris Prather, `<chris@prather.org>` Kjetil Kjernsmo, `<kjetilk@cpan.org>`
    Gregory Todd Williams, `<gwilliams@cpan.org>` Toby Inkster,
    `<tobyink@cpan.org>`

CONTRIBUTORS
    Dorian Taylor Paul Williams

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 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017 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.