javax.xml.stream.events
Interface Attribute

All Superinterfaces:

XMLEvent, XMLStreamConstants

All Known Subinterfaces:

Namespace

public interface Attribute
extends XMLEvent

An interface that contains information about an attribute. Attributes are reported as a set of events accessible from a StartElement. Other applications may report Attributes as first-order events, for example as the results of an XPath expression.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Copyright (c) 2003 by BEA Systems. All Rights Reserved.

See Also:

StartElement

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamConstants

ATTRIBUTE, CDATA, CHARACTERS, COMMENT, DTD, END_DOCUMENT, END_ELEMENT, ENTITY_DECLARATION, ENTITY_REFERENCE, NAMESPACE, NOTATION_DECLARATION, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, SPACE, START_DOCUMENT, START_ELEMENT

Method Summary

String	getDTDType() Gets the type of this attribute, default is the String "CDATA"
QName	getName() Returns the QName for this attribute
String	getValue() Gets the normalized value of this attribute
boolean	isSpecified() A flag indicating whether this attribute was actually specified in the start-tag of its element, or was defaulted from the schema.

Methods inherited from interface javax.xml.stream.events.XMLEvent

asCharacters, asEndElement, asStartElement, getEventType, getLocation, getSchemaType, isAttribute, isCharacters, isEndDocument, isEndElement, isEntityReference, isNamespace, isProcessingInstruction, isStartDocument, isStartElement, writeAsEncodedUnicode

Method Detail

getName

QName getName()

Returns the QName for this attribute

getValue

String getValue()

Gets the normalized value of this attribute

getDTDType

String getDTDType()

Gets the type of this attribute, default is the String "CDATA"

Returns:

the type as a String, default is "CDATA"

isSpecified

boolean isSpecified()

A flag indicating whether this attribute was actually specified in the start-tag of its element, or was defaulted from the schema.

Returns:

returns true if this was specified in the start element