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.

See Also:

StartElement

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamConstants

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

Method Summary

QName	getDTDType() Gets the type of this attribute, default is "CDATA"
QName	getName() Returns the QName for this attribute
java.lang.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 DTD.

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

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

Method Detail

getName

public QName getName()

Returns the QName for this attribute

getValue

public java.lang.String getValue()

Gets the normalized value of this attribute

getDTDType

public QName getDTDType()

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

isSpecified

public boolean isSpecified()

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

Returns:

returns true if this was specified in the start element