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// Attributes.java - attribute list with Namespace support
// http://www.saxproject.org
// Written by David Megginson
// NO WARRANTY! This class is in the public domain.
package org.xml.sax;
/**
* Interface for a list of XML attributes.
*
* <p>This interface allows access to a list of attributes in
* three different ways:</p>
*
* <ol>
* <li>by attribute index;</li>
* <li>by Namespace-qualified name; or</li>
* <li>by qualified (prefixed) name.</li>
* </ol>
*
* <p>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 <code>http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes</code>
* feature is set to <code>true</code> (it is <code>false</code> by
* default).
* Because SAX2 conforms to the original "Namespaces in XML"
* recommendation, it normally does not
* give namespace declaration attributes a namespace URI.
* </p>
*
* <p>Some SAX2 parsers may support using an optional feature flag
* (<code>http://xml.org/sax/features/xmlns-uris</code>) 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. </p>
*
* <p>If the namespace-prefixes feature (see above) is
* <code>false</code>, access by qualified name may not be available; if
* the <code>http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces</code> feature is
* <code>false</code>, access by Namespace-qualified names may not be
* available.</p>
*
* <p>The order of attributes in the list is unspecified, and will
* vary from implementation to implementation.</p>
*
* @since SAX 2.0
* @author David Megginson
* @see org.xml.sax.ext.Attributes2
*/
public interface Attributes
{
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Indexed access.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/**
* Return the number of attributes in the list.
*
* <p>Once you know the number of attributes, you can iterate
* through the list.</p>
*
* @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.
*
* <p>The attribute type is one of the strings "CDATA", "ID",
* "IDREF", "IDREFS", "NMTOKEN", "NMTOKENS", "ENTITY", "ENTITIES",
* or "NOTATION" (always in upper case).</p>
*
* <p>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").</p>
*
* <p>For an enumerated attribute that is not a notation, the
* parser will report the type as "NMTOKEN".</p>
*
* @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.
*
* <p>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.</p>
*
* @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.
*
* <p>See {@link #getType(int) getType(int)} for a description
* of the possible types.</p>
*
* @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.
*
* <p>See {@link #getType(int) getType(int)} for a description
* of the possible types.</p>
*
* @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.
*
* <p>See {@link #getValue(int) getValue(int)} for a description
* of the possible values.</p>
*
* @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.
*
* <p>See {@link #getValue(int) getValue(int)} for a description
* of the possible values.</p>
*
* @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