From Namespaces in XML 1.1 ( 2004-02-04) A qualified name is a name subject to namespace interpretation.
The complete name of a component, including the prefix associated with its target namespace if one is defined.
A ·qualified name· is an XML name that may contain a colon. The part before the colon is called the prefix, and is bound to a namespace URI thanks to an xmlns declaration. When the XML name doesn't contain a colon, there is no prefix in such a ·qualified name· , and its namespace URI is bound to the default namespace URI if it is about an element name, or not bound to a namespace URI otherwise.
The name of a variable, specified in a format that allows you to refer to variables in any scope. See block qualified name, frame block qualified name, fully qualified name, and image qualified name.
a name of the following form
a pair consisting of a URI,
qualified name is the name of an element or attribute defined as the concatenation of a local name (as defined in this specification), optionally preceded by a namespace prefix and colon character. See Qualified Names in Namespaces in XML [ Namespaces].
(1.) A name made unique by the addition of one or more qualifiers. (2.) A data name explicitly accompanied by a specification of the class to which it belongs in a specified classification system. (3.) In C++, used to qualify a nonclass type name such as a member by its class name.
A name made unique by the addition of one or more qualifiers. A data name explicitly accompanied by a specification of the class to which it belongs in a specified classification system, for example the PowerAda classification system for Ada compilation units.
An elementâ€(tm)s full name, consisting of prefix, colon, and local name. See also namespace.