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.

Since:: 1.6
See Also:: StartElement

Field Summary

Fields declared in 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

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`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 declared in 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