- 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
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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
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Method Summary
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 attributeString
getValue()
Gets the normalized value of this attributeboolean
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
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Method Details
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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"
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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
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