XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

getAttribute: name

Synopsis

Returns the attribute specified by the name parameter as a DOMString. See createElementNS: namespaceURI, qualifiedName⁽²⁾ for a complete explanation of how an attribute value is determined. This returns an empty string if no attribute is set and if no default attribute value was specified in the DTD.

Java binding

public String getAttribute(String name);

Java example

// Check for the name attribute
Element elem = doc.getDocumentElement( );
     
if (elem.getAttribute("name") =  = "") {
    System.out.println("warning: " + elem.getTagName( ) +
                   " element: no name attribute");
}