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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def get_prefix(self, el):
 """Get prefix."""


        prefix = self.get_prefix_name(el)
        return util.lower(prefix) if prefix is not None and not self.is_xml else prefix