org.xml.sax
public interface Attributes
This module, both source code and documentation, is in the Public Domain, and comes with NO WARRANTY. See http://www.saxproject.org for further information.
This interface allows access to a list of attributes in three different ways:
The list will not contain attributes that were declared
#IMPLIED but not specified in the start tag. It will also not
contain attributes used as Namespace declarations (xmlns*) unless
the http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes
feature is set to true (it is false by
default).
Because SAX2 conforms to the "Namespaces in XML" specification,
it does not give namespace declaration attributes a namespace URI.
Some other W3C specifications are in conflict with that, expecting
these declarations to be in a namespace.
Handler code may need to resolve that conflict.
If the namespace-prefixes feature (see above) is false,
access by qualified name may not be available; if the
http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces
feature is false, access by Namespace-qualified names
may not be available.
This interface replaces the now-deprecated SAX1 AttributeList
interface, which does not
contain Namespace support. In addition to Namespace support, it
adds the getIndex methods (below).
The order of attributes in the list is unspecified, and will vary from implementation to implementation.
Since: SAX 2.0
Version: 2.0.1 (sax2r2)
See Also: AttributesImpl DeclHandler
Method Summary | |
---|---|
int | getIndex(String uri, String localName)
Look up the index of an attribute by Namespace name.
|
int | getIndex(String qName)
Look up the index of an attribute by XML 1.0 qualified name.
|
abstract int | getLength()
Return the number of attributes in the list.
|
abstract String | getLocalName(int index)
Look up an attribute's local name by index.
|
abstract String | getQName(int index)
Look up an attribute's XML 1.0 qualified name by index.
|
abstract String | getType(int index)
Look up an attribute's type by index.
|
abstract String | getType(String uri, String localName)
Look up an attribute's type by Namespace name.
|
abstract String | getType(String qName)
Look up an attribute's type by XML 1.0 qualified name.
|
abstract String | getURI(int index)
Look up an attribute's Namespace URI by index.
|
abstract String | getValue(int index)
Look up an attribute's value by index.
|
abstract String | getValue(String uri, String localName)
Look up an attribute's value by Namespace name.
|
abstract String | getValue(String qName)
Look up an attribute's value by XML 1.0 qualified name.
|
Parameters: uri The Namespace URI, or the empty string if the name has no Namespace URI. localName The attribute's local name.
Returns: The index of the attribute, or -1 if it does not appear in the list.
Parameters: qName The qualified (prefixed) name.
Returns: The index of the attribute, or -1 if it does not appear in the list.
Once you know the number of attributes, you can iterate through the list.
Returns: The number of attributes in the list.
See Also: Attributes Attributes Attributes Attributes Attributes
Parameters: index The attribute index (zero-based).
Returns: The local name, or the empty string if Namespace processing is not being performed, or null if the index is out of range.
See Also: Attributes
Parameters: index The attribute index (zero-based).
Returns: The XML 1.0 qualified name, or the empty string if none is available, or null if the index is out of range.
See Also: Attributes
The attribute type is one of the strings "CDATA", "ID", "IDREF", "IDREFS", "NMTOKEN", "NMTOKENS", "ENTITY", "ENTITIES", or "NOTATION" (always in upper case).
If the parser has not read a declaration for the attribute, or if the parser does not report attribute types, then it must return the value "CDATA" as stated in the XML 1.0 Recommentation (clause 3.3.3, "Attribute-Value Normalization").
For an enumerated attribute that is not a notation, the parser will report the type as "NMTOKEN".
Parameters: index The attribute index (zero-based).
Returns: The attribute's type as a string, or null if the index is out of range.
See Also: Attributes
See getType(int)
for a description
of the possible types.
Parameters: uri The Namespace URI, or the empty String if the name has no Namespace URI. localName The local name of the attribute.
Returns: The attribute type as a string, or null if the attribute is not in the list or if Namespace processing is not being performed.
See getType(int)
for a description
of the possible types.
Parameters: qName The XML 1.0 qualified name.
Returns: The attribute type as a string, or null if the attribute is not in the list or if qualified names are not available.
Parameters: index The attribute index (zero-based).
Returns: The Namespace URI, or the empty string if none is available, or null if the index is out of range.
See Also: Attributes
If the attribute value is a list of tokens (IDREFS, ENTITIES, or NMTOKENS), the tokens will be concatenated into a single string with each token separated by a single space.
Parameters: index The attribute index (zero-based).
Returns: The attribute's value as a string, or null if the index is out of range.
See Also: Attributes
See getValue(int)
for a description
of the possible values.
Parameters: uri The Namespace URI, or the empty String if the name has no Namespace URI. localName The local name of the attribute.
Returns: The attribute value as a string, or null if the attribute is not in the list.
See getValue(int)
for a description
of the possible values.
Parameters: qName The XML 1.0 qualified name.
Returns: The attribute value as a string, or null if the attribute is not in the list or if qualified names are not available.