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1 package javax.xml.stream.events;
2
3 import javax.xml.namespace.QName JavaDoc;
4
5 /**
6  * An interface that contains information about an attribute. Attributes are reported
7  * as a set of events accessible from a StartElement. Other applications may report
8  * Attributes as first-order events, for example as the results of an XPath expression.
9  *
10  * @version 1.0
11  * @author Copyright (c) 2003 by BEA Systems. All Rights Reserved.
12  * @see StartElement
13  * @since 1.6
14  */
15 public interface Attribute extends XMLEvent {
16   
17   /**
18    * Returns the QName for this attribute
19    */
20   QName JavaDoc getName();
21
22   /**
23    * Gets the normalized value of this attribute
24    */
25   public String JavaDoc getValue();
26
27   /**
28    * Gets the type of this attribute, default is
29    * the String "CDATA"
30    * @return the type as a String, default is "CDATA"
31    */
32   public String JavaDoc getDTDType();
33
34   /**
35    * A flag indicating whether this attribute was actually
36    * specified in the start-tag of its element, or was defaulted from the schema.
37    * @return returns true if this was specified in the start element
38    */
39   public boolean isSpecified();
40
41 }
42
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