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+require File.expand_path('../../../../spec_helper', __FILE__)
+require 'rexml/document'
+
+describe "REXML::Attribute#prefix" do
+  it "returns the namespace of the Attribute" do
+    ans = REXML::Attribute.new("ns:someattr", "some_value")
+    out = REXML::Attribute.new("out:something", "some_other_value")
+
+    ans.prefix.should == "ns"
+    out.prefix.should == "out"
+  end
+
+  it "returns an empty string for Attributes with no prefixes" do
+    attr = REXML::Attribute.new("foo", "bar")
+
+    attr.prefix.should == ""
+  end
+end