org.xml.sax

Interface Attributes

public interface Attributes

Interface for a list of XML attributes.
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This interface allows access to a list of attributes in three different ways:

  1. by attribute index;
  2. by Namespace-qualified name; or
  3. by qualified (prefixed) name.

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 {@link org.xml.sax.AttributeList 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)

Author: David Megginson

See Also: AttributesImpl DeclHandler

Method Summary
intgetIndex(String uri, String localName)
Look up the index of an attribute by Namespace name.
intgetIndex(String qName)
Look up the index of an attribute by XML 1.0 qualified name.
abstract intgetLength()
Return the number of attributes in the list.
abstract StringgetLocalName(int index)
Look up an attribute's local name by index.
abstract StringgetQName(int index)
Look up an attribute's XML 1.0 qualified name by index.
abstract StringgetType(int index)
Look up an attribute's type by index.
abstract StringgetType(String uri, String localName)
Look up an attribute's type by Namespace name.
abstract StringgetType(String qName)
Look up an attribute's type by XML 1.0 qualified name.
abstract StringgetURI(int index)
Look up an attribute's Namespace URI by index.
abstract StringgetValue(int index)
Look up an attribute's value by index.
abstract StringgetValue(String uri, String localName)
Look up an attribute's value by Namespace name.
abstract StringgetValue(String qName)
Look up an attribute's value by XML 1.0 qualified name.

Method Detail

getIndex

public int getIndex(String uri, String localName)
Look up the index of an attribute by Namespace 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.

getIndex

public int getIndex(String qName)
Look up the index of an attribute by XML 1.0 qualified name.

Parameters: qName The qualified (prefixed) name.

Returns: The index of the attribute, or -1 if it does not appear in the list.

getLength

public abstract int getLength()
Return the number of attributes 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

getLocalName

public abstract String getLocalName(int index)
Look up an attribute's local name by index.

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

getQName

public abstract String getQName(int index)
Look up an attribute's XML 1.0 qualified name by index.

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

getType

public abstract String getType(int index)
Look up an attribute's type by index.

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

getType

public abstract String getType(String uri, String localName)
Look up an attribute's type by Namespace name.

See {@link #getType(int) 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.

getType

public abstract String getType(String qName)
Look up an attribute's type by XML 1.0 qualified name.

See {@link #getType(int) 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.

getURI

public abstract String getURI(int index)
Look up an attribute's Namespace URI by index.

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

getValue

public abstract String getValue(int index)
Look up an attribute's value by index.

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

getValue

public abstract String getValue(String uri, String localName)
Look up an attribute's value by Namespace name.

See {@link #getValue(int) 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.

getValue

public abstract String getValue(String qName)
Look up an attribute's value by XML 1.0 qualified name.

See {@link #getValue(int) 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.