+ * 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 original "Namespaces in XML"
+ * recommendation, it normally does not
+ * give namespace declaration attributes a namespace URI.
+ *
Some SAX2 parsers may support using an optional feature flag
+ * (http://xml.org/sax/features/xmlns-uris) to request
+ * that those attributes be given URIs, conforming to a later
+ * backwards-incompatible revision of that recommendation. (The
+ * attribute's "local name" will be the prefix, or "xmlns" when
+ * defining a default element namespace.) For portability, handler
+ * code should always resolve that conflict, rather than requiring
+ * parsers that can change the setting of that feature flag.
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 + * @author David Megginson + * @version 2.0.1 (sax2r2) + * @see org.xml.sax.helpers.AttributesImpl + * @see org.xml.sax.ext.DeclHandler#attributeDecl + */ +public interface Attributes +{ + + + //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// + // Indexed access. + //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// + + + /** + * Return the number of attributes in the list. + * + *Once you know the number of attributes, you can iterate + * through the list.
+ * + * @return The number of attributes in the list. + * @see #getURI(int) + * @see #getLocalName(int) + * @see #getQName(int) + * @see #getType(int) + * @see #getValue(int) + */ + public abstract int getLength (); + + + /** + * Look up an attribute's Namespace URI by index. + * + * @param index The attribute index (zero-based). + * @return The Namespace URI, or the empty string if none + * is available, or null if the index is out of + * range. + * @see #getLength + */ + public abstract String getURI (int index); + + + /** + * Look up an attribute's local name by index. + * + * @param index The attribute index (zero-based). + * @return The local name, or the empty string if Namespace + * processing is not being performed, or null + * if the index is out of range. + * @see #getLength + */ + public abstract String getLocalName (int index); + + + /** + * Look up an attribute's XML qualified (prefixed) name by index. + * + * @param index The attribute index (zero-based). + * @return The XML qualified name, or the empty string + * if none is available, or null if the index + * is out of range. + * @see #getLength + */ + public abstract String getQName (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 Recommendation + * (clause 3.3.3, "Attribute-Value Normalization").
+ * + *For an enumerated attribute that is not a notation, the + * parser will report the type as "NMTOKEN".
+ * + * @param index The attribute index (zero-based). + * @return The attribute's type as a string, or null if the + * index is out of range. + * @see #getLength + */ + public abstract String getType (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.
+ * + * @param index The attribute index (zero-based). + * @return The attribute's value as a string, or null if the + * index is out of range. + * @see #getLength + */ + public abstract String getValue (int index); + + + + //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// + // Name-based query. + //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// + + + /** + * Look up the index of an attribute by Namespace name. + * + * @param uri The Namespace URI, or the empty string if + * the name has no Namespace URI. + * @param localName The attribute's local name. + * @return The index of the attribute, or -1 if it does not + * appear in the list. + */ + public int getIndex (String uri, String localName); + + + /** + * Look up the index of an attribute by XML qualified (prefixed) name. + * + * @param qName The qualified (prefixed) name. + * @return The index of the attribute, or -1 if it does not + * appear in the list. + */ + public int getIndex (String qName); + + + /** + * Look up an attribute's type by Namespace name. + * + *See {@link #getType(int) getType(int)} for a description + * of the possible types.
+ * + * @param uri The Namespace URI, or the empty String if the + * name has no Namespace URI. + * @param localName The local name of the attribute. + * @return The attribute type as a string, or null if the + * attribute is not in the list or if Namespace + * processing is not being performed. + */ + public abstract String getType (String uri, String localName); + + + /** + * Look up an attribute's type by XML qualified (prefixed) name. + * + *See {@link #getType(int) getType(int)} for a description + * of the possible types.
+ * + * @param qName The XML qualified name. + * @return The attribute type as a string, or null if the + * attribute is not in the list or if qualified names + * are not available. + */ + public abstract String getType (String qName); + + + /** + * Look up an attribute's value by Namespace name. + * + *See {@link #getValue(int) getValue(int)} for a description + * of the possible values.
+ * + * @param uri The Namespace URI, or the empty String if the + * name has no Namespace URI. + * @param localName The local name of the attribute. + * @return The attribute value as a string, or null if the + * attribute is not in the list. + */ + public abstract String getValue (String uri, String localName); + + + /** + * Look up an attribute's value by XML qualified (prefixed) name. + * + *See {@link #getValue(int) getValue(int)} for a description + * of the possible values.
+ * + * @param qName The XML qualified name. + * @return The attribute value as a string, or null if the + * attribute is not in the list or if qualified names + * are not available. + */ + public abstract String getValue (String qName); + +} + +// end of Attributes.java