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public interface: Attributes2 [javadoc | source]

All Implemented Interfaces:
    Attributes

All Known Implementing Classes:
    Attributes2Impl

SAX2 extension to augment the per-attribute information provided though Attributes . If an implementation supports this extension, the attributes provided in ContentHandler.startElement() will implement this interface, and the http://xml.org/sax/features/use-attributes2 feature flag will have the value true.
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XMLReader implementations are not required to support this information, and it is not part of core-only SAX2 distributions.

Note that if an attribute was defaulted (!isSpecified()) it will of necessity also have been declared (isDeclared()) in the DTD. Similarly if an attribute's type is anything except CDATA, then it must have been declared.

Method from org.xml.sax.ext.Attributes2 Summary:
isDeclared,   isDeclared,   isDeclared,   isSpecified,   isSpecified,   isSpecified
Method from org.xml.sax.ext.Attributes2 Detail:
 public boolean isDeclared(int index)
    Returns false unless the attribute was declared in the DTD.
This helps distinguish two kinds of attributes that SAX reports
as CDATA:  ones that were declared (and hence are usually valid),
and those that were not (and which are never valid).
 public boolean isDeclared(String qName)
    Returns false unless the attribute was declared in the DTD.
This helps distinguish two kinds of attributes that SAX reports
as CDATA:  ones that were declared (and hence are usually valid),
and those that were not (and which are never valid).
 public boolean isDeclared(String uri,
    String localName)
    Returns false unless the attribute was declared in the DTD.
This helps distinguish two kinds of attributes that SAX reports
as CDATA:  ones that were declared (and hence are usually valid),
and those that were not (and which are never valid).


    Remember that since DTDs do not "understand" namespaces, the
namespace URI associated with an attribute may not have come from
the DTD.  The declaration will have applied to the attribute's
qName.
 public boolean isSpecified(int index)
    Returns true unless the attribute value was provided
by DTD defaulting.
 public boolean isSpecified(String qName)
    Returns true unless the attribute value was provided
by DTD defaulting.
 public boolean isSpecified(String uri,
    String localName)
    Returns true unless the attribute value was provided
by DTD defaulting.


    Remember that since DTDs do not "understand" namespaces, the
namespace URI associated with an attribute may not have come from
the DTD.  The declaration will have applied to the attribute's
qName.