org.retro.xml
Interface Attributes

public interface Attributes

Method Summary

int	getIndex(java.lang.String qName) Look up the index of an attribute by XML 1.0 qualified name.
int	getIndex(java.lang.String uri, java.lang.String localName) Look up the index of an attribute by Namespace name.
int	getLength()
java.lang.String	getLocalName(int index) Look up an attribute's local name by index.
java.lang.String	getQName(int index) Look up an attribute's XML 1.0 qualified name by index.
java.lang.String	getType(int index) Look up an attribute's type by index.
java.lang.String	getType(java.lang.String qName) Look up an attribute's type by XML 1.0 qualified name.
java.lang.String	getType(java.lang.String uri, java.lang.String localName) Look up an attribute's type by Namespace name.
java.lang.String	getURI(int index) Look up an attribute's Namespace URI by index.
java.lang.String	getValue(int index) Look up an attribute's value by index.
java.lang.String	getValue(java.lang.String qName) Look up an attribute's value by XML 1.0 qualified name.
java.lang.String	getValue(java.lang.String uri, java.lang.String localName) Look up an attribute's value by Namespace name.

Method Detail

getLength

public int getLength()

getURI

public java.lang.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:

getLength()

getLocalName

public java.lang.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:

getLength()

getQName

public java.lang.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:

getLength()

getType

public java.lang.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:

getLength()

getValue

public java.lang.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:

getLength()

getIndex

public int getIndex(java.lang.String uri,
                    java.lang.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(java.lang.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.

getType

public java.lang.String getType(java.lang.String uri,
                                java.lang.String localName)

Look up an attribute's type by Namespace name.

See 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 java.lang.String getType(java.lang.String qName)

Look up an attribute's type by XML 1.0 qualified name.

See 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.

getValue

public java.lang.String getValue(java.lang.String uri,
                                 java.lang.String localName)

Look up an attribute's value by Namespace name.

See 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 java.lang.String getValue(java.lang.String qName)

Look up an attribute's value by XML 1.0 qualified name.

See 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.