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+/*
+ * Copyright 2007 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.ws.server.endpoint.mapping.support;
+
+import java.io.StringReader;
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory;
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamConstants;
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;
+import javax.xml.transform.Source;
+import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
+import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
+import javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXSource;
+import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
+
+import junit.framework.TestCase;
+import org.springframework.xml.transform.StaxSource;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+
+public class PayloadRootUtilsTest extends TestCase {
+
+    public void testGetQNameForDomSource() throws Exception {
+        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
+        DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
+        Document document = builder.newDocument();
+        Element element = document.createElementNS("namespace", "prefix:localname");
+        document.appendChild(element);
+        Source source = new DOMSource(document);
+        QName qName = PayloadRootUtils.getPayloadRootQName(source, TransformerFactory.newInstance());
+        assertNotNull("getQNameForNode returns null", qName);
+        assertEquals("QName has invalid localname", "localname", qName.getLocalPart());
+        assertEquals("Qname has invalid namespace", "namespace", qName.getNamespaceURI());
+        assertEquals("Qname has invalid prefix", "prefix", qName.getPrefix());
+    }
+
+    public void testGetQNameForStaxSource() throws Exception {
+        String contents = "<prefix:localname xmlns:prefix='namespace'/>";
+        XMLInputFactory inputFactory = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
+        XMLStreamReader streamReader = inputFactory.createXMLStreamReader(new StringReader(contents));
+        while (streamReader.getEventType() != XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT) {
+            streamReader.next();
+        }
+        Source source = new StaxSource(streamReader);
+        QName qName = PayloadRootUtils.getPayloadRootQName(source, TransformerFactory.newInstance());
+        assertNotNull("getQNameForNode returns null", qName);
+        assertEquals("QName has invalid localname", "localname", qName.getLocalPart());
+        assertEquals("Qname has invalid namespace", "namespace", qName.getNamespaceURI());
+        assertEquals("Qname has invalid prefix", "prefix", qName.getPrefix());
+    }
+
+    public void testGetQNameForStreamSource() throws Exception {
+        String contents = "<prefix:localname xmlns:prefix='namespace'/>";
+        Source source = new StreamSource(new StringReader(contents));
+        QName qName = PayloadRootUtils.getPayloadRootQName(source, TransformerFactory.newInstance());
+        assertNotNull("getQNameForNode returns null", qName);
+        assertEquals("QName has invalid localname", "localname", qName.getLocalPart());
+        assertEquals("Qname has invalid namespace", "namespace", qName.getNamespaceURI());
+        assertEquals("Qname has invalid prefix", "prefix", qName.getPrefix());
+    }
+
+    public void testGetQNameForSaxSource() throws Exception {
+        String contents = "<prefix:localname xmlns:prefix='namespace'/>";
+        Source source = new SAXSource(new InputSource(new StringReader(contents)));
+        QName qName = PayloadRootUtils.getPayloadRootQName(source, TransformerFactory.newInstance());
+        assertNotNull("getQNameForNode returns null", qName);
+        assertEquals("QName has invalid localname", "localname", qName.getLocalPart());
+        assertEquals("Qname has invalid namespace", "namespace", qName.getNamespaceURI());
+        assertEquals("Qname has invalid prefix", "prefix", qName.getPrefix());
+    }
+}
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