QName to string w/ prefix

[Theodore David Williams]

I cannot seem to find a standard way to get a QName as a string with the prefix as output after mashaling to XML.

I.E. when I marshal to XML I get

<str>prefix:name</str>

Is there a standard way to turn a QName into this string?

Of course I could do:

QName qName = .....
String withPrefix = qName.getPrefix() + ":" + qName.getLocalName();

But that seems messy.

[g tsuji]

But that seems messy.

Maybe not that messy after all. Messiness is not of short supply, but that is far from being one, no? On the flip-side, one should guard against unnecessary proliferation of methods...