XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

The Attributes Interface

Synopsis

An object that implements the Attributes interface represents a list of attributes on a start-tag. The order of attributes in the list is not guaranteed to match the order in the document itself. Attributes objects are passed as arguments to the startElement( ) method of ContentHandler. You can access particular attributes in three ways:

• By number

• By namespace URI and local name

• By qualified name

This list does not include namespace declaration attributes (xmlns and xmlns:prefix) unless the http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes feature is true. It is false by default.

If the http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes feature is false, qualified name access may not be available; if the http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces feature is false, local names and namespace URIs may not be available.

package org.xml.sax;
     
public interface Attributes {
     
  public int    getLength(  );
  public String getURI(int index);
  public String getLocalName(int index);
  public String getQName(int index);
  public int    getIndex(String uri, String localName);
  public int    getIndex(String qualifiedName);
  public String getType(int index);
  public String getType(String uri, String localName);
  public String getType(String qualifiedName);
  public String getValue(String uri, String localName);
  public String getValue(String qualifiedName);
  public String getValue(int index);
     
}